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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860