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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

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

1865-1866

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1870-1877

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1872

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

1865

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

1872

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

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

1873