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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

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

1897-1898

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

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

1896

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Galvanic brooch

1880-1910

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

1909-1910

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Life size female anatomical figure

1895-1905

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mains cable from power stations in London, around 1890

1890

Wooden commemorative plaque, Thirsk 1892, North Eastern Railway

1892

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Early Electric Bulb, John Rylands Library

around 1900

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Ring spinning frame

1901

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

model ship - dewsbury

1910

1914-1915 star medal - G F W Keen

1915