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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

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Mill Engine

1903

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

The Munition Girls

1918

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Richet-type forceps

1851-1900

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

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

1909-1910

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

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

1897-1898

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

1853-1857

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900