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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

1879

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

1870-1881

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1870-1877

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870