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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

Walter, William Grey

1910 - 1977

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

1910

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1909-1910

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Ear trumpet

1850-1900

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Mundy-Castle, Alastair

1923 - 2015

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Shipton, Harold William

1920 - 2007

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Addac adding machine

1926

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Roving frame

1927

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900