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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of human eye

1870

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1872

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1865

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 steam locomotive

1882

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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

1865-1866

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Catgut suture

1875

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1870-1881

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

1870-1877

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

1872

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880