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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

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1871

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

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

1865-1866

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Merman'

1801-1900

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

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

1897-1898

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

1775-1785

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

The Munition Girls

1918

Mill Engine

1903

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1785-1790

Cubical polyhedral sundial

1751-1800

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1780-1850

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

1870-1920

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Phrenological head

1821

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846