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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Geophysics

1876

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866