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

1871

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

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Hand loom

1825-1835

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Model of human eye

1870

Dental impression tray

1830-1850

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Phrenological head

1821

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Rocket locomotive

1829