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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

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

1770

'Merman'

1801-1900

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

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

1801-1900

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

1769

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Phrenological head

1821

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Mill Engine

1903

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860