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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Dental Pelican for Tooth Pulling

Dentistry

1701-1800

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Glass female urinal, Europe, 1701-1800

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1800

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Camera Obscura

King George III

1701-1752

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889