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

1871

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

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'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)

Model of human eye

1870

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1873

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

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

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870