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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

'Merman'

1801-1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Rotative Steam Engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

1788

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

Set of thirteen spirit bubbles, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Phrenological head

1821

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1790-1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Huskisson Memorial

1831

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)