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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Model steam locomotive

1882

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Penknife with three blades and a corkscrew, owned by William Marwood: executioner

1870-1880

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1870-1881

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1870-1877

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)