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Category
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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

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

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

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

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

Model of human eye

1870

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

1873

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865