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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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 of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

George Cruikshank

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Eclipse

Railway Models

1841