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Material
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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

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

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

1873

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Model of human eye

1870

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

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

1874

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

1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

BP tank wagon

1901

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884