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

1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1872

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

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

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

1876

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1870-1877

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1865

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

1872

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

1873

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Model of human eye

1870

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865