Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840
Cammann type binaural stethoscope
1845-1855
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway
1839
Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862
1862
Oval badge
1891
Edison's electric carbon filament lamp
1879
Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage
1876
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.
1858-1866
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Plaster model of the lunar surface
1844
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.
1860
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England
1870
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Enfield Carbine Rifle
circa 1860
One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889
1889
Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875
1875
Wrap reel/Hank winder
1877
Queen Victoria's Saloon
1869
Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873
1873
Perth Station, Coming South
1895
Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888
1870-1888
Kodak No 1 Camera
circa 1891
Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince
1888
Queen Victoria's pony bath chair
1893
Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884
1884
Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth
1859
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Medal commemorating Eduard Albert
1891
Boxwood fathom marker
1876
Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases
1862
Grasshopper Engine
1840
Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box
1883
Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.
1877
Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton
1840
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Portrait of Isaac Newton
1862-1863
Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace
1840
Tower's handcuffs
1882-1890
Sunset and afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.
1883
Shand Mason horse-drawn steam fire engine
1889-1894
Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois
1925; 1862
Edmondson Ticket Printing machine
1835-1845
Early x plates of Lord Kelvin and Lord Salisbury's hand
circa 1896
Collection of 14 photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, c1865-1875
1865-1875