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British Railways Presflo cement wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1961

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Samsung microwave oven, 1990s

Domestic Appliances

1990-1998

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Spinning mule

Textile Industry

1927

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

'Passalong Test', psychological test, London, England, 1960-1990

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1960-1990

Packet of Craven 'A' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

'Merman'

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1801-1900

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Alcatel 'One Touch Easy' mobile telephone, 1998-2002

Telecommunications

1998-2002

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1961

control unit for Honeywell DDP 516 computer, 1966-1970

Computing & Data Processing

1966-1970

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Ped-O-Jet mass inoculation gun

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1975

Pennies and sixpences welded together as a result of bombing raid in 1942, found at York Station

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1942

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

Time Measurement

1392

British Railways D200

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1958

Drawings of the 'Great Eastern' steam ship

main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

'Szondi-Test', psychological test, Switzerland, 1947

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1947

Alarm clock, mounted on model of coffin

Anatomy & Pathology

1840-1900

Contraceptive sponge

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1920-1960

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation

Astronomy

1988

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1976

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Nokia 1011 mobile telephone, 1992-1994

Telecommunications

1992-1994

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1859-1939

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

Telecommunications

1901-1910

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1520-1530

Avro Shackleton A.E.W. 2

Aeronautics

1954

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Two metal buttons showing an enema treatment, Germany, 1701-1900

Therapeutics

1701-1900

Executioner’s mask, Europe, 1501-1700

Wellcome (general)

1501-1700

Difference Engine No.2, designed by Charles Babbage, built by Science Museum

Computing & Data Processing

1991