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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1872

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

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

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)

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

1872

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of human eye

1870

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale

1870

Trade label for Joseph Casartelli

1870

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Aveling blood transfusion set in case with instructions

1872

Sample, one of two

1872

First experiment in repulsion

1872

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

circa 1870

The Black Country

1869

John Herschel

1870

Lithograph. The New Wilford Bridge. Crosses the Trent at the site of the old Wilford Ferry

1870

Electric time piece with hands but without dial

1872

Interrupter for induction coil (early form)

1870

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Illuminated address, to Sir Daniel Gooch Bart, MP

1871

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Chromolithograph, State Coach of the Right Honorable The Lord Mayor of the City of London

1872