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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1872

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

Model of human eye

1870

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale

1870

Trade label for Joseph Casartelli

1870

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Aveling blood transfusion set in case with instructions

1872

Sample, one of two

1872

First experiment in repulsion

1872

Seal and stamp - Horsham Gas Company

1873

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

circa 1870

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

1873

Lignite from Sasso Forte

before 1874

The Black Country

1869

Portrait of Joseph Priestley

1874