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'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Royal Saloon, Queen Mary's

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1908

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

King Edward's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

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

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

Public Health & Hygiene

1915-1918

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Double duck-billed speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

Railways

1909

Corona folding portable typewriter, 1912

Printing & Writing

1912

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

Classical & Medieval Medicine

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1900

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

Holmgren's coloured wool test for colour blindness, Europe, 1871-1900

Ophthalmology

1871-1900

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1901-1920

Strowger calling dial, 1900

Telecommunications

1900

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

Dentistry

1890-1900

Experimental model of Marconi's magnetic detector, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

Industrial Chemistry

1906

North Eastern Railway steam breakdown crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Jacquard hand loom

Textile Industry

c. 1910

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Hirtz's compass for locating bullets, Paris, France, 1915

Clinical Diagnosis

1915

Gestetner's rotary cyclostyle no 6 duplicator (copier), 1902

Printing & Writing

1902

Ring spinning frame

Textile Industry

1901

Empire type world clock for indicating time around the globe

Time Measurement

1909

Protective face mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

Wellcome (general)

1917-1918

Thomas-type leg splint, Europe, 1901-1920

Orthopaedics

1901-1920

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919