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Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

1775

Snuff Box, England, 1771-1830

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Rocket locomotive

1829

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Arkwright's Water Frame

1775

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Britannia statue

1849

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1846

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Model of human eye

1870

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

1770

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Phrenological head

1821

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Cranial trephine

1771-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sans Pareil

1829