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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

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

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Model of human eye

1870

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1846

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

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

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

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

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Siemens and Halske's ABC Telegraph used in Russia

1850-1897