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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of human eye

1870

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1801-1900

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Sans Pareil

1829

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

'Merman'

1801-1900

Phrenological head

1821

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Walking stick made of spiralling narwhal tusk

1801-1900

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Britannia statue

1849

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822