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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of human eye

1870

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

1853-1857

Rocket locomotive

1829

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Britannia statue

1849

A steam hammer at work

1871

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890