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One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

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

Geophysics

1876

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Astronomical Diagram. The seasons and signs of the zodiac. P

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Photograph of a radiograph of hand taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, 1895

Radiomedicine

1895

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885