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

1872

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

1871

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1780-1850

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Cast lead tobacco jar

1790-1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Hand loom

1825-1835

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

A steam hammer at work

1871

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

1874

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855