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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

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

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

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

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1865

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

1851-1900

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858