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

1871

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

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Model of human eye

1870

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

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

1865

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

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

1876

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Catgut suture

1875

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1873

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

1865

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96