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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

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

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

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

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

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Archive

1850-1859

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850