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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Whalebone walking stick, owned by Charles Darwin, England, 1839-1881

Orthopaedics

1839-1881

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Geophysics

1876

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Archive

1850-1859