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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Geophysics

1876

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Lighting

1860-1880

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1875-1878

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

Clockmakers

1870-1877

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870