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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Decorated pedestal water closets 'The New Humber'

Domestic Appliances

1875-1885

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

Audiology

1875-1885

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Spirograph and examples of patterns drawn using it

Mathematics

1886

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

Domestic Appliances

1880

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

Model which represents the paddle steamers "Queen Victoria" and the ''Prince of Wales''

Water Transport

1887

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

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

Telecommunications

1876

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

Telecommunications

1888

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Hand-operated lithographic printing press made by Alex Seggie of Edinburgh

Printing & Writing

1871