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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

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Cherrywood tobacco pipe

1850-1900

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900

Laennec-type monaural stethoscope, France, 1851-1900

1851-1900

Drawings (9) of colonial cruisers "Tauranga" and "Ringarooma"

1890-1891

Glass Harmonica

1862

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

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

1873

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899