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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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)

Catgut suture

1875

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1872

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Panorama de Paris

1878

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

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

1934

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

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

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

1705-1737

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

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

1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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

1870-1877

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Captain Roux's 'Paracyclone'

1875

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

1873

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877