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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

The Munition Girls

1918

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Phrenological head

1821

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Bath chair, United Kingdom, 1901-1920

1901-1920

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

English teddy bear: golden mohair

1920-1929

Mill Engine

1903

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Volume 1 No. 1 of "Television" monthly magazine, 1928

1928

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of a pendulum clock based on Galileo's design

1921

Baby carrier with model baby

1880-1920

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

1860-1910

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835