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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

'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

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Watt's end measuring machine

Industrial Metrology

1776

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin

Optics

1756-1800

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834