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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

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

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

Archive

1850-1859

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

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

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Piorry type monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1834-1883

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844