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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Catgut suture

1875

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)