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Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Southern Railway 0-6-0 Q1 class steam locomotive, No C1

1942

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

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

1934

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Fertility amulet

1880-1925

Galvanic necklace with 2 charms

1880-1920

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Warflat' 50-ton bogie flat wagon, 1940

1940

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

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

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Motor coach, driving trailer composite, SR 2-Bil Unit

1937

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Motor brake 3rd, SR 2-Bil Unit

1937

Neveroil Roller Bearing axlebox for light railway truck

1930

Harwood self-winding wrist-watch of about 1930

circa 1930

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Comptometer, manual operation

1930-1940

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

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