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Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Orrery planetary model

1851-1856

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Calotype Camera

1838-1848

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

1865-1883

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

1899

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900

The Reading Establishment Panorama (Right Half)

1845-1847

Microscope used by Louis Pasteur in his investigations on silkworm diseases, Paris, France, 1860-1870

1860-1870

Self winding pocket watch in square, silver case

1875-1885

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Edison's Original Micro-Tasimeter, 1878

1878

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Zoetrope strip: No 11, Fish and Fowl

1860s

Hansom cab, late 19th century

1887-1900

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

Anglo-American Arab Platen Printing Machine, 1842-1880

1842-1880

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and cousins

circa 1880

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

1854-1863

Faraday's Disc Electrical Generator

1889

The "Perfect Vise"

1890

Dudgeon sphygmograph by Millikin and Down

1876-1890

Werner Motor Cycle, 1899

1899

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Kastner's Pyrophone, 1873-1876

1873-1876

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

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

circa 1870

Double beam engine model

1840-1851

Whitworth Measuring Machine

1889

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

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

1843-1853

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

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

1871-1885

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836