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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

1871

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

1780-1850

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Horn feeding cup from Edward Whymper collection

1801-1920

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1853-1857

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

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

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

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

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Electrical chimes by George Adams

1781-1790

Pinard type foetal stethoscope

1870-1920

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

1777-1785

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

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

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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