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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

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1897-1898

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)

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

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

1873

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

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

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

1874

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

1896

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

The "Perfect Vise"

1890

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Catgut suture

1875

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877