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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

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

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

1846

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

Rocket locomotive

1829

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1897-1898

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860