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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Coalbrookdale by Night by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Branding tool for marking deserters, London, England 1810-1850

Wellcome (general)

1810-1850

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821