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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

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

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

Geophysics

1876

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Tower's handcuffs

Wellcome (general)

1882-1890

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871