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

1871

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of human eye

1870

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Britannia statue

1849

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

1853-1857

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1872

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

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Watch with enamel case made for the Turkish market

1805-1815

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Pair of obstetrical forceps

1831-1870

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

1800-1850

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Vaginal speculum

1801-1850

Enema syringe

1831-1870

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840