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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

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

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

Geophysics

1876

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

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

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

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

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1900

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Calculating machine (arithmometer), Paris, France, 1880-1900

Mathematics

1880-1900

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

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

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887