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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

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

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

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869