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

1871

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

1872

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Cystoseira granulata

1843-1853

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

1871

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit

1870s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874