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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

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

1871

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of human eye

1870

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Wooden figure of pregnant female

1880-1920

Steel-bound fetish pipe

1880-1920

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Rolling ball clock by E. Dent and Co

1920

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Zenith X-ray tube and shield

1901-1913

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

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

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Experimental television receiver used by JL Baird in demonstration, made 1925-1926

1925-1926

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886