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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1872

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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 amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Model of human eye

1870

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

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

1934

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

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

1870-1877

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Panorama de Paris

1878

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870