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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835