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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1871

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

1870-1881