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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

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

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Swan necked glass retort

Medical Glass-ware

1760-1870

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880