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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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Hand-operated lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Kastner's Pyrophone, 1873-1876

Acoustics

1873-1876

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

Telecommunications

1876

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

Water Supply Metering

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoratio

Wellcome Medals

1876

Victorian underground telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c.1870

Crossley Brothers Atmospheric Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Bosanquet's Enharmonic Harmonium

Acoustics

1872-1873

Savart's wheel

Acoustics

1870

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

Railway Models

1873

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

Daniel Spill

1870-1875

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned, n.d.

Daniel Spill

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned, n.d.

Daniel Spill

1870-1875

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

Art

1875

Repeating Theodolite, Horizontal and vertical circles

Surveying

1875
Industrial 0-4-0ST locomotive "Bauxite", built by Black, Hawthorn & Co Ltd, 1874.

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Model of Stonehenge

Astronomy

1873

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874
Joule's original calorimeter ('paddle-wheel apparatus') used in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat. Copper mixing vessel with vane and spindle

mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus

Heat

1876

William Rutherford's freezing microtome

Microscopes

1873-1876

Collier lock stitch sewing machine, c. 1874

Textiles Machinery

1874

Meidinger battery cell

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

The Island Pagoda

Photographs

c. 1871