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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

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

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

Lighting

1860-1880

Brass scarificator

Therapeutics

1860-1875

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

Domestic Appliances

1880

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878