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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788.

Motive Power

1788

Arkwright's water frame, 1775.

Textiles Machinery

1775

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

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

Geophysics

1876

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Snuff box, England, 1771-1830

Smoking

1771-1830

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Cometarium

Astronomy

1791-1859

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879