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

1872

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

1871

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

1865-1866

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

1853-1857

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

1873

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

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

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854