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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850