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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1871

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

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

The Munition Girls

1918

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Mill Engine

1903

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1897-1898

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Rocket locomotive

1829

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Mounted set of Hagedorn's suture needles

1880-1920

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Slotting machine

1835

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Model of Behr high speed monorail

1904

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

1870-1920

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

1890-1900

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848