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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

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Alidade for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

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

Railway Models

1808

Monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1840-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

'Old Age' statue, Staffordshire, England, 1801-1830

Orthopaedics

1801-1830

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Signal lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Wollaston slide rule of chemical equivalents, 1814.

Experimental Chemistry

1814

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

single needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

Telecommunications

1835-1845

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Railway Timepieces

1834-1844