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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

'Bell-crank' engine, c. 1799

Motive Power

1795-1805 (original)

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Vaccination lancet, London, England, 1822-1850

Public Health & Hygiene

1822-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

Railway Models

1808

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850