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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

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

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of human eye

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

A steam hammer at work

1871

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Basin from a pan closet

1860-1870

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)