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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thumbscrew, France, 1601-1850

1601-1850

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Packet of 10 'Gold Flake' Cigarettes

1920-1950

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

1871

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

1872

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1700-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

SR 'Ellerman Lines' 4-6-2 Merchant Navy Class sectioned steam locomotive, No 35029

1949

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

Napier's Bones

1690

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

The Munition Girls

1918

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes by Carreras Ltd

1920-1950

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1780-1850

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Wooden Acupuncture Model

1681

'Merman'

1801-1900

Bowl from Hiroshima, Japan

1935-1945

Gresley Buffet Car

1937

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

1853-1857