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

1801-1900

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

1872

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1871

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1865-1866

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Merman'

1801-1900

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1897-1898

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

The Munition Girls

1918

Mill Engine

1903

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1785-1790

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1780-1850

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Phrenological head

1821

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905