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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Archive

1850-1859

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

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

Hannah Humphrey

1802

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848