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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

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Jugum penises, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Therapeutics

1880-1920

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Geophysics

1876

Bottle of Alertis Cordial, United States, 1901-1920

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1920

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Photographs

1915-1920

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

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

Dentistry

1870-1920

Wooden figure of pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Model of a foot operated drill, Germany, 1910-1920

Dentistry

1910-1920

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862