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

1872

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

1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

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

1877

Catgut suture

1875

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1873

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

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

1878

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

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

circa 1880

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

1870-1880

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

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

1870-1881

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1870-1877

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Panorama de Paris

1878

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

1872

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Model of human eye

1870