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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

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1877

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

1872

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

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

1872

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1873

Panorama de Paris

1878

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Saw bench

1879

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

1871

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

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

1876

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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

1705-1737

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

1875-1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1875-1878