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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Pharmacy leech jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1831-1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851