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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

Carriage key

1875-1890

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900