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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of human eye

1870

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Britannia statue

1849

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Rocket locomotive

1829

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1872

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Franklin

1762

Divers Projets

1798

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Carriage key

1875-1890

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861