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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

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

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

Geophysics

1876

‘Barker Universal’ electric massage apparatus, United States, 1913-1914

Therapeutics

1913-1914

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Conch shell trumpet used by people of New Guinea a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

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

Dentistry

1870-1920

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Photographs

1915-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1850-1910

Orthopaedics

1850-1910

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Wooden figure of pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

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

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902