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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

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

1897-1898

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

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

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1873

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

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

1909-1910

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Galvanic brooch

1880-1910

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Life size female anatomical figure

1895-1905

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

1871