Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

London & North Eastern Railway steam locomotive 'Mallard'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Complete Omega Speedmaster watch with velcro strap

Space Technology

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

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

Geophysics

1876

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

Microscopes

1763

Strowger calling dial, 1906

Telecommunications

1906

'Jedi' helmet, used with Cryogenic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine

Radiomedicine

1980

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

Time Measurement

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Gold plated BBC Micro personal computer, 1985

Computing & Data Processing

1985

Receiver for Baudot Multiplex type-printing telegraph, 1911-1925

Telecommunications

1911-1925

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

Radio Communication

1899-1901

Sixteen lens cine camera

Cinematography

1886-1887

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Model of the Blue Star Line T.S. 'Arandora Star'

Water Transport

1927-1929

Voigt condenser microphone, 1920-1940

Radio Communication

1920-1940

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740