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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

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Geophysics

1876

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

Lighting

1860-1880

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862