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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834