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

1801-1900

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1700-1850

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

1871

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1872

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Walter, William Grey

1910 - 1977

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Mill Engine

1903

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'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

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

'Merman'

1801-1900

Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

1910

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1909-1910

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Napier's Bones

1690

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897