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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1770

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

1780-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900

Barber's chair modified for dental extractions

1701-1800

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Model of human eye

1870

Huskisson Memorial

1831

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1846

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1853-1857

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Rocket locomotive

1829

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888