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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

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

'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

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898