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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1865-1866

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

1870-1881

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1870-1877

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1880-1890

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

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

circa 1885

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889