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Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

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

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

Dentistry

1890-1900

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Block instrument (lock and block)

Signalling & Telecommunications

1897

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

X-ray installation

X-rays

1896-1897

Packet of pure quinine powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1890-1900

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Cast steel pressure cooker by A. Kendrick & Sons, 1885-1895.

Domestic Appliances

1885-1895

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1900

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885