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Material
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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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

BP tank wagon

1901

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Model of human eye

1870

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1873

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

John Ellis

1858

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

model crane - little elephant

1896

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

X-ray tube

1895-1899

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Carriage key

1875-1890

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901