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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

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

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

1873

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of human eye

1870

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

A steam hammer at work

1871

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878