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Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Cat-o-nine tails, United Kingdom, 1700-1850

Wellcome (general)

1700-1850

Ivory dildo, possibly French, 1701-1800

Therapeutics

1701-1800

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Whalebone walking stick, owned by Charles Darwin, England, 1839-1881

Orthopaedics

1839-1881

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857
1749-1823, physician; surgeon; pioneer of smallpox vaccination, British; English

Jenner, Edward

1749 - 1823

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897