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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

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1897-1898

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

'Early 'perpetuelle' watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet

1783-1800

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Plaster cast of a Roman child's face, Paris, France, 1878-1920

1860-1920

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

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