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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1770

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Richet-type forceps

1851-1900

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

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

1897-1898

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

1853-1857

'Merman'

1801-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890