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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

1870

Magic lantern slide: Housemaid and chimney sweep

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 12

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 6

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

1870

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

1870

Inmates sharpening tools

1871

Inmate at a loom

1871

Inmates at work

1870-1871

'Hypatia'

circa 1870

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Hindu astrolabe

1870

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Beale type self-illuminating ophthalmoscope, London, England, 1870

1870

Annie Chinery

circa 1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

1870

'The Guardian Angel'

circa 1870

Diapositives of Photographs of Sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01