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

1871

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

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of human eye

1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

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

1873

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

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

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

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)