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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1872

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

1877

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1870-1881

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

1870-1877

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885