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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1853-1857

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1873

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wine glass

1860-1880

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

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

circa 1880

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1879