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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1872

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

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

1865-1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1870-1877

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866