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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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Geophysics

1876

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

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

Archive

1850-1859

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Veterinary Medicine

1850-1880

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

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

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

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

Lighting

1860-1880

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863