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

1871

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

1770

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

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

1780-1850

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Glass flask containing urine

1865-1877

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

1771-1800

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Hand loom

1825-1835

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

circa 1800