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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

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

Telecommunications

1876

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Bristol Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Compound monocular microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1870-1880

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

Replica of Edison's first phonograph, 1877.

Sound Reproduction

1877

Astatic mirror galvanometer, (no. 166), by Elliott

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878