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Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Phrenological head

1821

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edward Jenner's lancets

1801-1823

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Two Perkins 'tractors'

1795-1805

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1796

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Shaving by Steam

1800-1830

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Huskisson Memorial

1831

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

1846

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859