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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

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)

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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)

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

'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
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

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
1813-1858, anaesthetist; epidemiologist; physician, British; English

Snow, John

1813 - 1858

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

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Original preparation of quinine acetate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1840

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819