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

1871

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Self Cleansing carbon filter

1861 - 1900

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

England and her Soldiers

1859

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1865-1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881