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Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

1871

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1897-1898

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Alarm whistle for use by psychiatric warders

1890-1914

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

1870-1888

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

model double-sided discharge wagon

1910

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

London & North Western Railway 1st class corridor brake no. 5154

1906

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Selector switch, 1903

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Table instrument with dial, 1903

1903

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899