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

1801-1900

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Merman'

1801-1900

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1897-1898

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Slotting machine

1835

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Memento mori skull and crossbones

1801-1900

Glass urinals or matula

1801-1900

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1801-1900

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1853-1857

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Phrenological head

1821

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900