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'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

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

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)

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

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

1874

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

Seal and stamp - Horsham Gas Company

1873

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

1873

Lignite from Sasso Forte

before 1874

Portrait of Joseph Priestley

1874

Petroleum oil cannel coal, Bathgate, Wallerawang, New South Wales, Australia

before 1873

Electric time piece with hands but without dial

1872

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

"Bottom coal" Henlis Coal and Firebrick Works

before 1874

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

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

1872

Coal from Vancouver Coal Mines and Land Company

before 1873

Coal from Vancouver Coal Mines and Land Company's Colliery

before 1873

Coal from Vancouver Coal Mines and Land Company Colliery

before 1873

Bronze medal evidently commemorating a building

1872

Lignite from the Dranista Coalfield, Katerini, Greece

before 1874

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Coal sample which ignited spontaneously, Woolwich Gasworks, 1873

before 1873

Furnace accretion "Ofenbruch" after roasting

before 1872