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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

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

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

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

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

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

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

Therapeutics

1840-1900

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860