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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884