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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Straight spectacles

1796-1797

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Chronometer in Gold Case by Thomas Earnsham, 1795-1810

1795-1810

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

circa 1805

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small screw-cutting device or fusee engine for clock-maker's use

circa 1800

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819