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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

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Geophysics

1876

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

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

c.1900

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Decapitating hook, London, England,1851-1900

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1851-1900

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900