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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

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Geophysics

1876

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858