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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of human eye

1870

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1853-1857

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1872

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Carriage key

1875-1890

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

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

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wine glass

1860-1880

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

1865

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882