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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

1872

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1770

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

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

1780-1850

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1846

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

1701-1800

Painted Marurassa mask

1771-1900

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Disease mask for healing rituals

1771-1900

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

'Merman'

1801-1900

Phrenological head

1821

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin

1820-1840

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868