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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

1872

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1846

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Phrenological head

1821

'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin

1820-1840

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Half-penny coin

1799

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Rigged Model of a Fijian Double Canoe with Mast

1800-1872

Hand loom

1825-1835

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Compass

1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802