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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

'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

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

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

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Mrs. Sage

.Unattributed

1785

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Nooth's apparatus, Europe, 1774-1831

Experimental Chemistry

1774-1831

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823