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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

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

Geophysics

1876

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Broca goniometer for measuring angles of the face

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1862-1900

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884