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

1801-1900

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Barber-Colman knotter.

circa 1925

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

The Munition Girls

1918

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1700-1850

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Rocket locomotive

1829

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

1801-1900

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Britannia statue

1849

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Belt made of spiked metal, Europe, 1501-1700

1501-1700

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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

1897-1898

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Mallock-Armstrong ear defenders, London, England, 1914-1918

1914-1918