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

1871

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

1853-1857

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

1846

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Britannia statue

1849

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

1872

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1865-1866

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02