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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

The Demon Detective camera

1889

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

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

1873

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Durn Mill Steam Engine

1864

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

1871

Mains cable from power stations in London, around 1890

1890

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit

1870s

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1870s

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Model steam locomotive

1882

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884