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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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)

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

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

model steam locomotive

1890

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

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

1877

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889