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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

1871

Infant's feeding bottle

1751-1900

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1780-1850

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Horn feeding cup from Edward Whymper collection

1801-1920

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Sans Pareil

1829

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

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

1770

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

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

1846

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1801-1900

Rocket locomotive

1829

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Pinard type foetal stethoscope

1870-1920

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull

1801-1900

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905