Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

Clockmakers

1780-1850

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1935

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

London & North Eastern Railway steam locomotive 'Mallard'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

Clockmakers

1953

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

LMS(R) steam locomotive with tender 'Duchess of Hamilton' 4-6-2 Coronation class, No 6229, 1938

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

British Railways D200

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1958

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

British Railways diesel electric locomotive AIA-AIA Class 31, No D5500 (31018), 1957

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1957

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

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

Radiomedicine

1980

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Machine-Screw thread making tool, by Henry Maudslay

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1800

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Omega Speedmaster watch

Space Technology

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

Time Measurement

1675-1679

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

Water Transport

1910-1937

Culpeper microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1738

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Gold plated BBC Micro Personal Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1985

Frame for Leksell Stereotactic System

Surgery

1992-1999

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

Mathematics

1654

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1952

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

Radio Communication

1899-1901

replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

Space Technology

(1962); 1982