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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

'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

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

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

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Archive

1850-1859

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856