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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

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

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

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

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

1840

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840