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Place
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)

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

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

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

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

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

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

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Facial mask

1501-1800

Britannia statue

1849

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780