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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

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Meerschaum Tobacco Pipe with Bowl in form of Human Skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1906

Royal Saloon, Queen Mary's

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1908

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

King Edward's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1901-1920

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897