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Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Male anti-masturbation device, United Kingdom, 1871-1930

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1871-1930

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Meerschaum Tobacco Pipe with Bowl in form of Human Skull

Smoking

1870-1910

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

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

Aeronautics

1928

The Munition Girls

Stanhope Alexander Forbes

1918

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

A stchoty, Russian abacus.

Mathematics

1901-1930

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Spinning mule

Textile Industry

1927

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Coin operated toilet lock

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1930

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

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

Dentistry

1870-1920

Glass bottle of cocaine eye drops

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

'Prorace' cervical cap

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1915-1925

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Mallam-type vaccinator, London, England, 1874-1900

Public Health & Hygiene

1874-1900

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Radio Communication

1922-1925

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862