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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

Sans Pareil

1829

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1872

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Carriage key

1875-1890

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

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

1840

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886