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

1871

Infant's feeding bottle

1751-1900

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

1780-1850

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

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

1770

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1801-1900

Sans Pareil

1829

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Memento mori showing woman with half a head and half a skull

1801-1900

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

1795

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Merman'

1801-1900

Phrenological head

1821

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Tinder pistol, England

1801-1899

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

1872