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Category
Collection
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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

1853-1857

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

circa 1868

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

1896

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

1851-1900

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

1873

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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