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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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

The Munition Girls

1918

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1916-1918

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Mill Engine

1903

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

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

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

1860-1910

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

1840-1900

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

1909-1910

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900