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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

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

Geophysics

1876

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Conch shell trumpet used by people of New Guinea a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

Dentistry

1870-1920

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Whalebone walking stick, owned by Charles Darwin, England, 1839-1881

Orthopaedics

1839-1881

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1850-1910

Orthopaedics

1850-1910

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847