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Place of origin
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Sony 'Trinitron' Colour Television, 1969-1970

1969-1970

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

1871

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Personal Computer, model Apple I

1976-1979

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

1945

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

1957

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Japanese magic mirror

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model of Stephenson's Rocket

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Liquid-filled Plastic Lens Television Magnifier, 1935-1965

1935-1965

Home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

1951-1953

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

1925-1958

12-ton 3-Plank open wagon

1936

Great spinning wheel

'Form M Revised Stanford-Binet Scales', IQ test, United States, 1937

1937-1960

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Clock Case from Quintinshill Signal Box

1915-1916

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Spirit level, North British Railway, Caledonian Railway, and London & South Western Railway

Train Spotters are Prohibited from Entering this Yard

1950-1969

Truncheon, found at Clapham Junction

Relief Plan, Poplar Dock Depot

circa 1955

Shrub Hill Road level crossing notice

Station clock

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

model London & North Eastern Railway bogie