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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1877

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

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

circa 1880

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

1870-1880

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876