Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Radiomedicine

1980

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Metal lice comb, 'Derbac' brand, England, 1930-1940

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1952

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, 1962-1967

Radio Communication

1962-1967

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Standard morse key, 1880-1950

Telecommunications

1880-1950

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

System X circuit board from digital switching subsystem, 1980

Telecommunications

1980

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Double-current telegraph key, 1830-1900

Telecommunications

1830-1900

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Single-needle telegraph by W. F. Cooke, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

two-valve short wave radio - telephonic receiver, 1927

Radio Communication

1927

Specimen of lightweight transatlantic telephone cable, 1961

Telecommunications

1961

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

Television

1937-1960

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

'You may telephone from here' sign, 1910-1936

Telecommunications

1910-1936

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Piece from the London University Computing Service Atlas computer

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1964

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, deep sea type, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Surgeon console, from da Vinci® Classic surgical system

Surgery

1999-2001

brennan's gyroscopic mono-rail car

Railway Models

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Hand perforator and copy stand for Wheatstone automatic telegraph system, 1890-1910

Telecommunications

1890-1910

Britannia telephone wire joint specimen, 1900-1980

Telecommunications

1900-1980

Logic door from a Ferranti Mark I computer, 1951

Computing & Data Processing

1951

Central Battery transmitter (sectioned), 1903-1926

Telecommunications

1903-1926