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

1871

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

1780-1850

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sans Pareil

1829

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

1853-1857

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

1846

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1801-1900

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Rocket locomotive

1829

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

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

1801-1900

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Phrenological head

1821

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900