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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Clockmakers

1770

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Memento mori skull and crossbones

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1900

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837