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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Piorry type monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1834-1883