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'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1897-1898

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Mill Engine

1903

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

The Munition Girls

1918

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

1853-1857

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and The Queen of Hearts

1870s

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Wrought iron coffee mill with circular lidded hopper

1850-1900

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Ring spinning frame

1901

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904