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

1871

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

1770

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Napier's Bones

1690

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Wooden statue of St Adrian

1700-1850

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Merman'

1801-1900

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858