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Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1871

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

1872

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

The Munition Girls

1918

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Merman'

1801-1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Mill Engine

1903

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Frame saw

1700-1800

Slotting machine

1835

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Bo-Bo No 1

1902