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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

Printing & Writing

1871

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1875-1878