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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

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)

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

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

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

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

1920-1930

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Marconi-Sykes magnetophone

1923

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Spinning Mule

1927

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

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

1909-1910

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

1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Match box containing Bryant and May's Flaming Fusees

1880-1930