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Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1872

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

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

1705-1737

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

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

1871

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

A steam hammer at work

1871

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1872

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

1873

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Model of human eye

1870

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale

1870

Trade label for Joseph Casartelli

1870