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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

1770

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of human eye

1870

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

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

1780-1850

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Horn feeding cup from Edward Whymper collection

1801-1920

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Zenith X-ray tube and shield

1901-1913

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869