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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

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

The Munition Girls

1918

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

1899-1919

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

1909-1910

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Mill Engine

1903

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Pair of child's orthopaedic boots

1879-1923

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

1915-1918

Model of human eye

1870

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Copy of Morton's inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1870-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1873

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902