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Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

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

1871

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

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

1935

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Apple 'iPhone 3G' smartphone, 2008-2010

2008-2010

Eurostar 3000 satellite, 2000

2000

Gold lever escapement watch by John Leroux

1785

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Model of a North Eastern Railway coal wagon, c 1915

1910-1920

Model of a pendulum clock based on Galileo's design

1921

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Watch movement with spring detent escapement by John Arnold and Son

1787

Spring-detent escapement watch with gold case by John Arnold and Son

1796

Patient side cart, from da Vinci® Classic surgical system

1999-2001

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1771

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

1920-1930

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

1956

Rocket locomotive

1829

Datsun Cherry 100a (E10) four door saloon motor car made by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd

1974

Arriflex 2C 35mm cine camera

1960

'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails

1813-1814

Seal die, Ashby De La Zouch Canal Company

1794

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Model diesel-electric locomotive

Model locomotive, Great Western Railway

1916-1996

Model of the 1956 designed Bluebird CN7 racing car

1960

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Model railway turntable

1850

Colchester 2000L CNC lathe

1985-2000

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Apollo 11, Lunar Module 'Eagle', 1969.

1976

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

Steel bradawl with turned hickory handle, brass ferrule and securing nut

1758-1819

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804