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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

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

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

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

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

Radiomedicine

1980

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

Sixteen lens cine camera

Cinematography

1886-1887

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

Telecommunications

1892-1920

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

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

Television

1937-1960

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Standard morse key, 1880-1950

Telecommunications

1880-1950

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

two-valve short wave radio - telephonic receiver, 1927

Radio Communication

1927

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

Radio Communication

1917

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1964

Replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's 1879 'Patent Office' telephone, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Bersey electric taxi cab

Road Transport

1897

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

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

Telecommunications

1890-1910

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

Telecommunications

1888

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

Radio Communication

1899

Vertical galvanometer, 1830-1870

Electricity Supply

1830-1870

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

Telecommunications

1956

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

Agricultural Engineering

1902; 1913-1920

Dr. Mays and Dr. Prinz's Relay-operated logic machine

Computing & Data Processing

1951

Mobile telephone call box from Cameroon, 1997-2012

Telecommunications

1997-2012

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

Models of two parabolic zinc reflectors used by Heinrich Hertz, 1949

Radio Communication

1949

Telstar maser assembly with magnet, 1962-1967

Radio Communication

1962-1967

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Logic door from a Ferranti Mark I computer, 1951

Computing & Data Processing

1951

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

Telecommunications

1926

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902