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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

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Gustave Doré

1872

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

Brass scarificator

Therapeutics

1860-1875

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Temporary Exhibitions

1870

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

Lighting

1860-1880

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoratio

Wellcome Medals

1876

Basin from a pan closet

Domestic Appliances

1860-1870

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

Radio Communication

1875-1880

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867