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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1865

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Catgut suture

1875

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

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

1872

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

1872

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866