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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Model of Leeuwenhoek's microscope

1901-1930

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Astronomical quadrant with stand, 1685-1724

1685-1724

Electric Flat Iron, 1895-1905

1895-1905

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Camera Obscura

1701-1752

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

1790-1831

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

George III's compound engine

1762

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

Galvanic brooch

1880-1910

Colt's stretcher for narrow trenches

1915-1918

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

model horsebox

1975-1985

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

1968-1971

Eclipse

1841

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Folding scissors

1801-1900

Tinder pistol in egg-shaped

1700-1850

Model 'Maximum machine', before 1753.

1740-1753

Wooden carpenter's brace

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

Multo Brunsviga type barrel calculating machine

1950-1960

Sector signed John Allen

1630-1642

Hull & Selby Rly Co., three aspect guard's handlamp

model carriage chassis with two axles, 1762

1762

Atlantic Telegraph Cable Souvenir, 1873

1873-1920

Model Passenger Locomotive, 1840-1845

1840-1845

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

1720-1800

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

1820-1880

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Demainbray's convex lens

1750

George III's weighted cylinder

1762

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Unweighted cylinder in frame

1762

Hindley's pyrometer and three expansion tubes made by Henry Hindley

1752

George III's apparatus for oblique and compound collision

1762

George III's cycloidal pendulum

1762