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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Geophysics

1876

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

Archive

1880-1890

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Model steam locomotive, spirit fired live steam 'dribbler' 3

Railway Models

1890

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858