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

1873

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Harrington's clockwork dental drill

1864-1870

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Caesarean knife, Bunyoro, Uganda, c. 1879

1830-1879

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Edison's Original Micro-Tasimeter, 1878

1878

Charles Babbage

1860

Hindu astrolabe

1870

Michaux-Perreaux steam motor cycle scale model

1868

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Moon: West of Tycho

1851

Medal celebrating the Temperance Declaration, England, 1833-1870

1833-1870

Portrait lithograph print of George Dollond, 1851

1851

Multiple Gas Tap Spigot for Laboratory, French, c. 1870

1865-1875

Orrery planetary model

1851-1856

'Davy' miner's oil safety lamp made by JH Naylor

1860-1870

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

1843-1853

Clarke's-type electromagnetic machine

1854-1860

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Calotype Camera

1838-1848

Compound Microscope and Case used by Joseph Jackson Lister

1830-1850

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

circa 1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Le Praxinoscope

1877

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Lithograph of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

1826

Original Abbe apertometer, "made 1871"

1871

Original model of Edison's patent electric pen, 1875-1876

1875-1876

Slide Rest for Light Lathe, England, c. 1830

1825-1835

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840