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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

Barber-Colman knotter.

circa 1925

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

The Munition Girls

1918

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

1935

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

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

1945

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, London, England, 1914-1918

1914-1918

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Penicillium Mould presented by Alexander Fleming

1935

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Petrol locomotive

1925

Coronet Midget

1936

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Shelvador electric compression domestic refrigerator, c. 1934-1935.

1930-1940

Schimmelbusch mask

1890-1935

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

The Ardente Hearing aid, London, England, 1920-1930

1920-1930