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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

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

1897-1898

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

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

1873

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Model of human eye

1870

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

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

1874

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

1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878