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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

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

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

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)

Orrery made for the Earl of Orrery

Astronomy

1712-1713

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

Experimental Chemistry

1774-1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769

Time Measurement

1768-1769

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming

Time Measurement

1766

Ornate circumcision knife with ivory handle

Surgery

1775-1785

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

Astronomy

1780-1800

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Upper denture, Europe, 1701-1800

Dentistry

1701-1800

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Alidade for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Wooden statue of St Margaret of Antioch, Europe, 1701-1850

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1701-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Alchemical scroll, Europe, 1701-1800

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Richard Grindall's combined knife and fork, Europe, 1795-1820

Orthopaedics

1795-1820

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1840-1850