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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

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

William Combe

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

George Cruikshank

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Iron mortsafe lid

Anatomy & Pathology

1801-1822

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826