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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Model of human eye

1870