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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Smiths De Luxe Wristwatch Worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on His Ascent of Mount Everest 1953

1953

Phillip's Economic Computer

1949

Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

1934

'Memento mori' watch in the form of a skull, known as the 'Mary Queen of Scots' watch.

1780-1850

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Wells Cathedral clock, 1392

1392

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Chinese Government Railways Steam Locomotive 4-8-4 KF Class No 7

1935

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

1853-1857

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy M Crowfoot Hodgkin, England, 1945

1945

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Apple 'iPhone 3G' smartphone, 2008-2010

2008-2010

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

circa 1919

Heaf test gun, Oxford, England, 1978

1978

Rocket locomotive

1829

West Japan Railways Shinkansen 'Bullet Train', 1976

1976

English Electric Company diesel electric locomotive 'Deltic' Co-Co 3300HP, 1955

1955

Early balance spring watch by Thomas Tompion

1675-1679

Watch in a puddingstone, gold and diamond case by John Leroux

1775-1785

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Fireless locomotive, named Imperial

1956

Whirling psychrometer for measuring humidity

1950-1953

Submerged repeater for TAT-1, 1956

1956

Form watch by Benjamin Hill

1650

Astronomical longcase clock with a planetarium by Roland Jarvis

1982

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

High Speed Train Power Car diesel electric locomotive Class 43 number 43302

1978

Eurostar TMST power car 373 308

1996

Molecular model showing the structure of insulin

1967

Silver microscope by George Adams, c. 1761.

1763

Longcase clock by James and John Harrison

1728

Lantern clock by Peter Closon

1650-1660

Longcase clock movement by John and James Harrison

1726-1728

Watch with 'six hour' dial by Francis Stamper

1680-1685

George III's double-barrelled air pump

1761

United States Army Air Force camera

1940-1945

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Babbage's Difference Engine No 2, 2002.

1991-2002

Datsun Cherry 100a (E10) four door saloon motor car made by the Nissan Motor Company Ltd

1974

Apollo 11, Lunar Module 'Eagle', 1969.

1976