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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

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

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1870-1881

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879