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

1871

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

1770

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Dover Castle turret clock

1632-1640

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Napier's Bones

1690

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Model of human eye

1870

Amputation saw, Europe, 1501-1600

1501-1600

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Sun-and-moon dial by Elias Allen

1607-1653

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Wooden statue of St Adrian

1700-1850

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Merman'

1801-1900

Phrenological head

1821

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858