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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Branding tool for marking deserters, London, England 1810-1850

Wellcome (general)

1810-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel

Astronomy

1783-1785

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

Surgery

1790-1831

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Flintlock tinder pistol

Smoking

1780-1830

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837