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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

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

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

1780-1850

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

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

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

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Gold pair-cased watch with outer case chased in a basket-weave pattern by Charles Gretton

1702

Iron gin rat trap, England, 1750-1900

1750-1900

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Brass-bound lodestone

1675-1700

Swan necked glass retort

1760-1870

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Memento mori skull and crossbones

1801-1900

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900