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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1879

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1878

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

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

circa 1880

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1877

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1873

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1870-1877

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Model steam locomotive

1882