Trade card for a French company producing asphalt, c 1850-1880.

Besemer suspended saloon steamer, 1875.

Double-sided telegraph used for training operators, 1870-1930.

Railway tickets, 1832.

Monroe's 'Full Automatic' calculating machine, 1922.

Primitive hand tools, c 2000 BC- 1000 AD.

Development of the Soviet N1 rocket, c 1965-1972.

Man with 'spirit' of his deceased first wife, c 1920.

Patent drawing of Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny, 1770.

Early German watch and watch movement, 16th century.

Brunsviga calculating machine, 1892.

Memento mori, miniture skeleton. Roman, 199 BCE - 500 CE.