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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Jugum penises, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Therapeutics

1880-1920

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Dentistry

1870-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1850-1910

Orthopaedics

1850-1910

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889