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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

'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

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

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

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

Audiology

1875-1885

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

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

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

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

Snuffbox in the form of a ram's head, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1881-1882

Smoking

1881-1882

Hand-operated lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Panorama de Paris

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1878

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Decorated pedestal water closets 'The New Humber'

Domestic Appliances

1875-1885

Compound monocular microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1870-1880

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Chamberland filter, France, 1875-1884

Microbiology

1875-1884

Endoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885