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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Britannia statue

1849

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Rocket locomotive

1829

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

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

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

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

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

1840

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Male anatomical model

1833-1866

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834