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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of human eye

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

'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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

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

1865-1866

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Wooden statue of St Adrian

1700-1850

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Anamorphosis Painting of Perspective View of a Ship Model

1744-1774

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Merman'

1801-1900

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

'Dutch forgery' watch signed John Wilter

1780

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Phrenological head

1821

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775