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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

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

1897-1898

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

SR 'Winston Churchill' 4-6-2 Battle of Britain Class, No 34051

1946

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Plaster cast of a Roman child's face, Paris, France, 1878-1920

1860-1920

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Fertility amulet

1880-1925

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

British Railways railway wagon

1950

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Packet of 5 'Player's Navy Cut' cigarettes manufactured from Virgina Tobacco

1920-1950

Packet of 20 'Three Castles' cigarettes

1920-1950

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907