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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1880-1890

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

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

1879

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

1865

Model steam locomotive

1882

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

circa 1885

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1878

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830