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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

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

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851