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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Geophysics

1876

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Chemical Combustion Furnace by J. Orme & Co., 1870s

Experimental Chemistry

1870-1879