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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Stone mortar and pestle

Pharmacy-ware

1750-1850

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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Rawhide bag for storing cinchona bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1777-1785

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

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

Clockmakers

1770

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Napoleon's Toothbrush, Europe, 1790-1821

Dentistry

1790-1821

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840