Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

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

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

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

Radiomedicine

1980

National 3000 automatic bookkeeping calculating machine

Mathematics

1935-1945

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Hooke's compound microscope, copy, 1665-1675.

Microscopes

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

Telecommunications

1892-1920

BBC L1 lip microphone, 1937-1960

Television

1937-1960

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

Radio Communication

1899

Model of the SS Oceanic (1899)

Water Transport

1899-1919

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

two-valve short wave radio - telephonic receiver, 1927

Radio Communication

1927

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

Double-current telegraph key, 1830-1900

Telecommunications

1830-1900

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Sno-Cat model 743 tracked vehicle

Road Transport

1955

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) simulator, 1950

Computing & Data Processing

1950

Britannia model locomotive cab

Railway Models

1946-1956

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Patient side cart, from da Vinci® Classic surgical system

Surgery

1999-2001

Piece from the London University Computing Service

Computing & Data Processing

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

Radio Communication

1917

Siemens and Halske's ABC telegraph

Telecommunications

1850-1897

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Britannia telephone wire joint specimen, 1900-1980

Telecommunications

1900-1980

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

Radio Communication

1949

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Altair 8800b computer system, 1977-1982

Computing & Data Processing

1977-1982

Pentex production unit: B switch, 1965-1971

Telecommunications

1965-1971

Table telephone No. 2, 1906-1959

Telecommunications

1906-1959