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Box for 'Trilene' tablets, Europe, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

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

1871

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Cat-o-nine Tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

1700-1850

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

'Merman'

1801-1900

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

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

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Pharmacy jar for powdered quinine

1601-1700

Phrenological head

1821

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Napier's Bones

1690

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Set of thirteen spirit bubbles, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1801-1900

1801-1900

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862