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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1872

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1705-1737

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

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

1871

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1872

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

1873

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of human eye

1870

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

A steam hammer at work

1871

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

circa 1870

Inmates sharpening tools

1871

Inmates at work

1870-1871

Inmate at a loom

1871

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Lithograph, 'Portrait of William Stroudley', by G B Black, 1869

1869

Haemacytometer, Paris, France, 1874

1874

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Alfred Tennyson

circa 1869