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Short's 'Filoscope' Flip Book 'The Train'

Cinematography

1897

Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

Cinematography

c. 1905

Claude Lorrain mirror in fishskin case

Optics

1780-1800

Box-type Camera Obscura

Optics

1795-1805

Model 555-W loudspeaker receiver unit

Radio Communication

1926-1929

Eastman Kodak No. 3 Folding Pocket Camera

Photographic Technology

1910-1915

Automaton 'Dan Dare' pocket watch.

Time Measurement

1953

Perspective machine by James Watt, engraved "James

Mathematics

Optometer, Europe, 1801-1900

Ophthalmology

1801-1900

A 'bonnetted' Clanny lamp, no. 19, c. 1882.

Mining & Ore Dressing

1879-1886

Prestwich Model 4 cine camera

Cinematography

1898

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Brownie Automatic Camera

Photographic Technology

1902

Hotpoint Washing Machine

Domestic Appliances

1925-1930

GEC Tension Gauges

Telecommunications

National Horizontal Gas Engine

Motive Power

1932-1940

Electrostatic Generator

Electricity and Magnetism

1895-1905

Brewster type achromatic stereoscope

Optics

1860-1870

Massey's patent ships' log

Navigation

1854-1857

Ferranti alternator no.8, around 1882

Electricity Supply

1882

Automation mechanism, for ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Electrostatic generator

Electricity and Magnetism

c.1820
Underground train, Post Office Railway, No 809, two electric power units and one carriage from Mount Pleasant, London.

Post Office Railway, underground train, No 809

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1930

Whole model, scale 1:27, of Robert Fulton's first experimental steamboat

Marine Engines

1949

'Manchester' dynamo, around 1886.

Electricity Supply

c.1886
Model of a sugar cane mill, c.1850

Model of a sugar cane mill

Domestic Appliances

c. 1850

Kelvin Quadrant Electrometer, 1866

Geophysics

1866

Musical Repeater Pocket Watch, 1850-1865

Time Measurement

1850-1965

Alarm clock, early pattern, in felt lined laminate

Time Measurement

Monotype composing keyboard, 1930-1940

Printing & Writing

1930-1940

Half- Quarter Repeater Pocket Watch by Thomas Earnshaw, 1810-1823

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1823

Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

Wharfedale stop-cylinder printing press, 1865-1875

Printing & Writing

1870

'Magic' marmalade cutter

Domestic Appliances

c. 1904

Japanese pocket sundial in silvered case

Time Measurement

1801-1866

Pathe Baby Cine Camera With Motor

Cinematography

1926

Beyer-Garratt South African Railways Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1929

Robert Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

Gregorian reflecting telescope, 1748-1788

Astronomy

1748-1788

Planispheric astrolabe, 1572

Wellcome (general)

1572

Alarm clock

Time Measurement

1970-1975

Bench micrometer made by Joseph Whitworth and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1883

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

Marine Engines

1903

Williamson Cinematograph Camera

Cinematography

c. 1910

Modified side-lever marine engine

Marine Engines

1840-1850

Robertson's 'Rapid Calculator', c 1910.

Mathematics

1910-1920

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

Human Robotics

1890

Kineoptoscope projector mechanism

Cinematography

1897

Geometrical Conoids String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Surveyor's compass used by James Watt, by George Adams

James Watt's Garret Workshop

c. 1760