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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

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

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

Microbiology

1875-1878

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

Clockmakers

1870-1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

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

Railway Models

1873

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pyrophone

Acoustics

1873-1876

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

wooden base for submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of

Civil Engineering

1878

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

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

Telecommunications

1876

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Brass lamp, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Savart's wheel

Acoustics

1870

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

Road Transport

1879