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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

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

Wellcome (general)

1700-1850

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Mercury douche for urethral therapy, Paris, France, 1840-1895

Therapeutics

1840-1895

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Islamic astrolabe

Astronomy

1666-1667

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Dental pelican for tooth pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

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

Geophysics

1876

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Camera obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Cometarium

Astronomy

1791-1859

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869