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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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years.

Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

Pyrophone

Acoustics

1873-1876

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871