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Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1853-1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

1795-1805 (original)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Phrenological head

1821

'Imperial' Printing Press made by J. Cope and Sherwin

1820-1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Half-penny coin

1799

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Hand loom

1825-1835

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Compass

1800

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Euston Station gates

1838

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

1790-1831

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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