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

1871

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

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

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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model of human eye

1870

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

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

1874

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1900-1910

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

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

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1872

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

Carriage key

1875-1890

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901