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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Britannia statue

1849

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model steam locomotive

1890

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851