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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

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

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

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

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

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

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