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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1878

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

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

circa 1885

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

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

1865-1866

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Catgut suture

1875

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

John Ellis

1858

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1857-1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

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

1879

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890