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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1878

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

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

1877

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Panorama de Paris

1878

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Model of human eye

1870

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

1871

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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