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

1801-1900

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1871

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

1872

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Merman'

1801-1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1780-1850

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1897-1898

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Transverse folding spectacles

1796-1798

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Memento mori skull and crossbones

1801-1900

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900

Painted Marurassa mask

1771-1900

Model of William Murdock's Oscillating Engine, 1785.

1785

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Slotting machine

1835

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Set of thirteen spirit bubbles, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Statue of Li T'ieh-Kuai (Li Tieguai)

1801-1900

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

1890-1900