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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

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

'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

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Clementina Maude

Photographs

1863

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855