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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903