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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1872

Crick and Watson's DNA Molecular Model

1953

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1871

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

Caesium Atomic Clock, 1955.

1955

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

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

1846

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Roll of Honour for gallantry medal, London & North Eastern Railway

1947

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver fox locomotive plaque, London & North Eastern Railway

1935

Guard's handlamp, Great Northern Railway - Royal Train No.1

1870-1910

Ceramic chamber pot, Midland Railway - Midland Grand Hotel

1873-1923

Wagon owners plate, Shell-Mex & BP

1901

Relief Plan, Poplar Dock Depot

circa 1955

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

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

1877

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849