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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

London & North Eastern Railway steam locomotive 'Mallard'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1938

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera

Cinematography

1888

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Geophysics

1876

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Complete Omega Speedmaster watch with velcro strap

Space Technology

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

Telecommunications

1934

replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

Space Technology

(1962); 1982

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

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

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

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

Water Transport

1910-1937

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

Water Transport

1670

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

Replica of Soemmerring's telegraph of 1809-12, 1964

Telecommunications

1964

Morland's calculating machine, engraved "Samuel Morland, Inventor, 1666"

Mathematics

1666-1680

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

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sixteen lens cine camera

Cinematography

1886-1887

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming, 1766

Time Measurement

1766

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

Water Transport

1927-1929

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Ford Model T car

Road Transport

1912

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Belsize two-seater motor car

Road Transport

c. 1912

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Experimental television receiver used by JL Baird in demonstration at Royal Institution, 1926

Radio Communication

1926

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Ornamental turning 'rose-engine' lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1740

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860