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Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

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

Radiomedicine

1980

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

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

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

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-40

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Telecommunications

1959

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

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

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Prototype polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine

Biochemistry

1980-1989

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1952

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

Telecommunications

1890-1910

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

Telecommunications

1959

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

Standard morse key, 1880-1950

Telecommunications

1880-1950

Main portion of short mercury delay tube from the electronic computer EDSAC, 1946-1958

Computing & Data Processing

1946-1958

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946

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

Telecommunications

1910-1936

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Double-current telegraph key, 1830-1900

Telecommunications

1830-1900

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Altair 8800b computer system, 1977-1982

Computing & Data Processing

1977-1982

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

Radio Communication

1899

Experimental form of Marconi Company magnetic detector, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Moving magnet galvanometer with dial inscribed "Greenwich Mean Time", 1843-1897

Time Measurement

1843-1897

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

Television

1937-1960

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910