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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

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of human eye

1870

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

1879

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

1877

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

1878

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

circa 1880

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1873

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Catgut suture

1875

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

1870-1880

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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)

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1872

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880