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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Jugum penises, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Therapeutics

1880-1920

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Marconi 1.5kW transmitter used by 2LO, 1922

Radio Communication

1922

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Dentistry

1870-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Artificial left arm, Europe, 1850-1910

Orthopaedics

1850-1910

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Thomas-type leg splint, Europe, 1901-1920

Orthopaedics

1901-1920

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

Public Health & Hygiene

1915-1918

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910