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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Geophysics

1876

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Double duck-billed speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

Archive

1880-1890