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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1865-1866

Catgut suture

1875

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1865

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872