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

1871

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

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1865

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

1871

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit

1870s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1878

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

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

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878