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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

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

Gustave Doré

1872

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Hand-operated lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Panorama de Paris

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1878

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Compound monocular microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1870-1880

Yard bed standard measure, inscribed: 'WEST RIDING, YORKSHIRE..'

Weighing & Measuring

1861

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870