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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1801-1900

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

'Merman'

1801-1900

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Male anatomical model

1833-1866

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

1846

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

1872

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Divers Projets

1798

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856