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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1872

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

circa 1885

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

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

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

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

England and her Soldiers

1859

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

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1870-1881

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860