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

1871

Infant's feeding bottle

1751-1900

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

1780-1850

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sans Pareil

1829

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

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

1801-1900

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

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

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

1801-1900

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

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

'Merman'

1801-1900

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

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

1872