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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

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Geophysics

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855