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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

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

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Blue and white feeding cup, Staffordshire, England, 1820-1860

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1820-1860

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

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

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

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

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

Archive

1850-1859

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858