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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

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

1846

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

England and her Soldiers

1859

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1865-1866

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894