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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Napier's Bones, c.1690.

Mathematics

c. 1690

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera

Cinematography

1888

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

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

Geophysics

1876

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Gustave Doré

1872

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Fleming diode valve, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Robert Hooke type microscope

Microscopes

1671-1700

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Steam locomotive 'Handyman' 0-4-0ST, No 573

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1900

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

Experimental Chemistry

1774-1831

Cast steel pressure cooker by A. Kendrick & Sons, 1885-1895.

Domestic Appliances

1885-1895