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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889