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

1871

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

1872

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

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

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

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

1872

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1873

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)

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Panorama de Paris

1878

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1874

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

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

1705-1737

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

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

1934

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

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

1875-1878

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862