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Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Camera obscura

1845-1855

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885

1871-1885

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

The Black Country

1869

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Replica life mask of Taupua Te Whanoa

1853-1854

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Microscope used by Louis Pasteur in his investigations on silkworm diseases, Paris, France, 1860-1870

1860-1870

John Harrison

1834-1837

Self winding pocket watch in square, silver case

1875-1885

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister

1830-1850

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

The Countess of Lovelace

1840

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Carved wooden wheelchair, Europe, 1850-1890

1850-1890

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Mains cable from power stations in London, around 1890

1890

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Wooden commemorative plaque, Thirsk 1892, North Eastern Railway

1892

Berliner gramophone

1890

Stormont's patent bell, patented 1875

1875-1890

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

1865-1883

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

circa 1860

Rigged model of the Portuguese ironclad battleship 'Vasco de Gama'

1875-1876