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Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

1865-1883

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Items used by Louis Pasteur, 19th Century.

1861-1870

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

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

1873

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Allison's differential binaural stethoscope by Weiss and Son

1859-1865

The Hearts of Oak Society

1860-1879

Medal celebrating the Temperance Declaration, England, 1833-1870

1833-1870

Camera obscura

1845-1855

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

American view of the Channel Tunnel Scare

1882-1885

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Three-wheeled motor car

1888

Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885

1871-1885

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

1843-1853

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

1882

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

1845

Lancashire Boiler

1889

'Railway Time' clock

1840-1880

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Calotype Camera

1838-1848

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood, print, London, England, 1851

1851

Cayley's 'Aerial Carriage', 1843.

1843

Locomotion

1834-1836

Northward Ho!

1875-1876

Patent model, of Hyde's enclosed screw propeller

1857-1868

The Tissandier 'La France' airship, 1883.

1883

Rigged model of the Portuguese ironclad battleship 'Vasco de Gama'

1875-1876