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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of human eye

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Zenith X-ray tube and shield

1901-1913

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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

1865-1866

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913