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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

'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

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Smoking

1801-1830

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

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

S Knight

1832

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837