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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1871

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Caesium Atomic Clock, 1955.

1955

Poster of Valentina Tereshkova, First woman cosmonaut

1963

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

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Liquid-filled Plastic Lens Television Magnifier, 1935-1965

1935-1965

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Contraceptive Sponge

1920-1960

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

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

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

1860-1880

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

Locomotion

1834-1836

Kodak 'Brownie' Camera, about 1955

1953-1958

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

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

1904

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

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

Ceramic plate depicting Ely Cathedral, London & North Eastern Railway

1938

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

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

1947

Ceramic plate depicting Norwich Cathedral, London & North Eastern Railway

1938

Metal ship's plaque, Great Western Railway - St Patrick

1948

Ceramic saucer, London & North Eastern Railway

1923-1948