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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

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Meerschaum tobacco pipe with bowl in form of human skull

Smoking

1870-1910

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

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

Geophysics

1876

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Bo-Bo No 1

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

Orthopaedics

1895-1904

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Cash register

Cash Registers

c.1910

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

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

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879