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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

Clockmakers

1780-1850

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Vaginal Speculum for Applying Leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Water pipe, for smoking opium or tobacco, China, 1801-1830

Smoking

1801-1830

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son, 1787-1799

Time Measurement

1787-1799

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834