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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Meerschaum Tobacco Pipe with Bowl in form of Human Skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1906

Royal Saloon, Queen Mary's

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1908

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

King Edward's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Photographs

1915-1920