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

1871

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1872

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1876

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

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

1872

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

1934

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Model of human eye

1870

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

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

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

1873

Gas Street Lamp

circa 1870

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Kastner's Pyrophone, 1873-1876

1873-1876

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

circa 1870

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

1873