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

1871

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Britannia statue

1849

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Phrenological head

1821

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Water Pipe, for Smoking Opium or Tobacco, China, 1801-1830

1801-1830

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842