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Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

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

1872

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

1871

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

The Munition Girls

1918

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Bath chair, United Kingdom, 1901-1920

1901-1920

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Volume 1 No. 1 of "Television" monthly magazine, 1928

1928

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of a pendulum clock based on Galileo's design

1921

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

1860-1910

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

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Baby carrier with model baby

1880-1920

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Mill Engine

1903

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

1909-1910

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

1870-1920

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913