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

1872

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

1853-1857

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Railway bridge section

1850

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861