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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)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

circa 1885

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

before 1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Carriage key

1875-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

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

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1870-1877