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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Rocket locomotive

1829

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

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

1897-1898

Model of human eye

1870

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Alarm clock

1840-1900

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870