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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848