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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1872

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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1874

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

A steam hammer at work

1871

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Carriage key

1875-1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

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

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890