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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1780-1850

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

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

1846

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Hand loom

1825-1835

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800

A steam hammer at work

1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857