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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

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

Phrenological head

1821

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

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)

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

1805

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844