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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

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

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

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1853-1857

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1879

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

1877

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

model steam locomotive

1890

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Carriage key

1875-1890

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861