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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Geophysics

1876

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

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Orthopaedics

1839-1881

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838