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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

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

1871

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Bronze mortar and pestle, Europe, 1701-1800

1701-1800

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

1700-1850

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1770

'Merman'

1801-1900

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Napier's Bones

1690

Compound microscope

1700

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

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

1897-1898

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

Cash sword of coins for protecting new born baby from harmful spirits

1701-1800

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Locomotion

1834-1836

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Guard's handlamp, Great Northern Railway - Royal Train No.1

1870-1910

Wagon owners plate, Shell-Mex & BP

1901

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

model double-sided discharge wagon

1910