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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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

The Munition Girls

1918

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Mill Engine

1903

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Post mortem table ceramic

1921-1930

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Pair of child's orthopaedic boots

1879-1923

Pneumothorax apparatus for injecting gas into the thoracic cavity in order to collapse the lung

1901-1930

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

BP tank wagon

1901

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1896

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Bragg X-ray spectrometer, England, 1910-1926

1910-1926

Model of human eye

1870

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Robinson cup anemometer by Munro

1926-1932

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Copy of Morton's inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1870-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912