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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

1700-1850

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1770

'Merman'

1801-1900

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

1880-1940

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

The Munition Girls

1918

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

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

1935

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Phrenological head

1821

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788