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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

London & North Eastern Railway steam locomotive 'Mallard'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

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

Spinning mule

Textile Industry

1927

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

'Jason I', de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth

Aeronautics

1928

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

LMS(R) steam locomotive with tender 'Duchess of Hamilton' 4-6-2 Coronation class, No 6229, 1938

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1935

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

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1859-1939

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1926

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

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

Geophysics

1876

Passalong Test, London, England, 1937

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937

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

Therapeutics

1913-1914

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921

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

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

Public Health & Hygiene

1923

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Ampoule of anti gas-gangrene serum

Public Health & Hygiene

1934

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

Kodak Retina (Type 117)

Photographic Technology

1934-1935

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

Photographs

1915-1920

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

A stchoty, Russian abacus.

Mathematics

1901-1930

Milk van, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1936

Penicillium mould presented by Alexander Fleming

Biotechnology

1935

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900