Cranes: Rees' Cyclopaedia

Illustrations of ships, c 1690.

Miscellany: Rees' Cyclopaedia

Massey's patent frictionless sounder.

Objects relating to early viscose rayon (artificial silk) manufacture, c 1900.

Sample of clear shrink wrap, 1985.

Bell's 'Harmonic' telegraph transmitter and receiver, 1873-1874.

'Ngetwa 3' herbal medicine, Tanzania, 2005.

The Patent Museum, South Kensington, London, 1880.

Whippet spring frame safety bicycle, 1885.

Harry Ferguson's first mounted plough, 1935.

Egyptologist examining the remains of a mummy, 12 June 1975.