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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

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Brunel, Marc Isambard

1769 - 1849

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Rocket locomotive

1829

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent

1783

Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787

1785

Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt

1785

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Half-penny coin

1806

Small white cup in soft paste porcelain

1748-1763

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856