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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Anatomical model of a horse, c. 1850-1880.

Veterinary Medicine

1850-1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Archive

1850-1859

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

Lighting

1860-1880

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852