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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

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

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

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1840

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850