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Coalbrookdale by Night

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

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! - or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Meerschaum tobacco pipe, with carved horn stem and

Smoking

1790-1840

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Toothbrush set, in rectangular red leather tooled

Dentistry

1791-1792

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825