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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Railway bridge section

1850

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889