From the cabinet: Babbage's Difference Engine, 1832 — an engine of brass and cog to cast error-free tables, never finished in its maker's lifetime. The one part completed still turns by candlelight. What a century might have done. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

From the cabinet: a ticket of the London Necropolis Railway, 1854 — return for the living, one-way for the dead. A private funeral train ran Waterloo to Brookwood for a century. A railway built to the measure of an ending. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianLondon