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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1865-1866

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

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

1870-1881

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

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

1870-1877

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Anthropomorphic iris root

1891-1900

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

1880-1899

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895