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Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1906

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Decapitating hook, London, England,1851-1900

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1851-1900

Astronomical Diagram. The seasons and signs of the zodiac. P

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1900

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Photograph of a radiograph of hand taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, 1895

Radiomedicine

1895

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Double duck-billed speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Experimental model of Marconi's magnetic detector, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890