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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

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

'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

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

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

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

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

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

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

Orthopaedics

1839-1881

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Jugum penises, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Therapeutics

1880-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

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

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Geophysics

1876

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907