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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

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

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

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

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Vessel for growing Mould, used in Oxford, England, 1942

1940-1944

SR 'Winston Churchill' 4-6-2 Battle of Britain Class, No 34051

1946

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

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

Fertility amulet

1880-1925

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1900-1910

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Coin operated toilet lock

1890-1930

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

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876