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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

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Geophysics

1876

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Archive

1850-1859

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marey sphygmograph and case

Clinical Diagnosis

1857-1870

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

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

Lighting

1860-1880

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Submarine cable laid across the River Medina, Isle of Wight, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877