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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

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

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)