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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

'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

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

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

Geophysics

1876

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

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

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

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

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858