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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

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Walter, William Grey

1910 - 1977

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

1910

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Tin of 'Allenburys' throat pastilles, London, England, 1920-1940

1920-1940

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

1880-1940

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Ear trumpet

1850-1900

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Mundy-Castle, Alastair

1923 - 2015

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Rocket locomotive

1829