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

1801-1900

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

1872

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

1801-1830

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1871

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

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

1801-1900

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

1917

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

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

1865-1866

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Collection of sexual aids in a wooden box, Japan, 1930-1939

1930-1939

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

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

1897-1898

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Merman'

1801-1900

'Gynaeplaque' model, United States, 1925-1935

1925-1935

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

1935

Mill Engine

1903

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

The Munition Girls

1918

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

1853-1857

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

The Ardente Hearing aid, London, England, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Iron handcuffs with key, 1800-1899

1801-1900

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

1870-1920