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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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model steam locomotive

1882

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

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

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877