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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1879

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

1878

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Catgut suture

1875

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1872

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

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

1873

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1874

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

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

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

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

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Saw bench

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)