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

1871

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

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

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

1846

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

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)

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

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