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

1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Model of human eye

1870

Huskisson Memorial

1831

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1853-1857

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

1846

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Souscription watch, by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1805

'Souscription' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1800

Automaton watch by Jean Robert Soret

1812

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Quarter-repeating gold watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

circa 1808

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

model steam locomotive

1826

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825