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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Model steam

1899

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

X-ray tube

1895-1899

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Nasal speculum

1850-1899

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858