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Place
Material
Date

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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

The Munition Girls

1918

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

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

1909-1910

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

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Mill Engine

1903

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

BP tank wagon

1901

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model of human eye

1870

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

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

1846

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910