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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

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

1846

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

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

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)

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

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

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

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Siemens and Halske's ABC Telegraph used in Russia

1850-1897

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

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