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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

'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

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

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

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

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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820