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

1801-1900

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

1872

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1871

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Dental instruments used for tooth pulling, France, 1700-1800

1700-1800

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1865-1866

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

1700-1850

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Collection of sexual aids in a wooden box, Japan, 1930-1939

1930-1939

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

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

1935

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

1897-1898

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Merman'

1801-1900

Islamic horary quadrant, 1727-1728

1727-1728

Carved wooden figure of Job covered in boils, Europe, 1750-1850

1750-1850

'Gynaeplaque' model, United States, 1925-1935

1925-1935

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

Mill Engine

1903

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

The Munition Girls

1918

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785

1785-1790

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820