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100 Years of Progress, 1835-1935

1935

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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

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

1935

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of human eye

1870

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Electric locomotive, No. 26020

1951

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Matisa tamping machine

1949

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Ekco AD75 radio receiver, 1946

1946

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

1865-1866

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' Cigarettes

1920-1950

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

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

1945