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Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

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

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1920

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

Dentistry

1870-1920

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

St Hubert's Key

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Cash register

Cash Registers

c.1910

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898