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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

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1865-1866

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Phrenological head

1821

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Britannia statue

1849

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Sans Pareil

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rocket locomotive

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1801-1830

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

before 1889

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1865

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1837

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884