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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Vaginal speculum for applying leeches

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1830

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

Smoking

1801-1830

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Edward Jenner's lancets

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1823

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Cometarium

Astronomy

1791-1859

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Old Spitalfields hand loom with jacquard mechanism

Textiles Machinery

1810

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

Astronomy

1797

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Astronomy

1795-1825

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838