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Category
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Place
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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1871

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

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Slotting machine

1835

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821

Glass Harmonica

1862

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

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

1873

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

Half-penny coin

1806

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1879