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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

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

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

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Fertility amulet

1880-1925

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Galvanic brooch

1860-1916

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

Bo-Bo No 1

1902