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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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

The Munition Girls

1918

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1909-1910

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

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

1853-1857

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Mill Engine

1903

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

BP tank wagon

1901

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1896

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Pair of child's orthopaedic boots

1879-1923

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Bragg X-ray spectrometer, England, 1910-1926

1910-1926

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

1897-1898