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North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Water from the River Jordan

1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1878

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Catgut suture

1875

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1870-1880

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

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

circa 1880

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1870-1881

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

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

1876

Model steam locomotive

1882

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1877

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

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

1872

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank

1882

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1873

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880