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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1853-1857

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Laennec-type monaural stethoscope, France, 1851-1900

1851-1900

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

1890-1900

Drawings (9) of colonial cruisers "Tauranga" and "Ringarooma"

1890-1891

Glass Harmonica

1862

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

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

1873

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Ring spinning frame

1901

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1879

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

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

1865

Model steam locomotive

1882

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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