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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Plaster cast of a Roman child's face, Paris, France, 1878-1920

1860-1920

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1853-1857

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

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

1846

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1872

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855