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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1897-1898

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

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

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1846

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1853-1857

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Rocket locomotive

1829

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

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

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

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

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934