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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of human eye

1870

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

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

1865-1866

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

1780-1850

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Horn feeding cup from Edward Whymper collection

1801-1920

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Zenith X-ray tube and shield

1901-1913

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Merman'

1801-1900