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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

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1780-1850

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Mill Engine

1903

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

The Munition Girls

1918

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Richet-type forceps

1851-1900

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1897-1898

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1846

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

1853-1857

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Merman'

1801-1900

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848