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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Railway Collecting Dog: "Laddie"

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1948

Arkwright's Water Frame, 1775

Textiles Machinery

1775

Model of Wright Flyer

Aeronautics

1903

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Blackboard covered with Graffiti

Stephen Hawking Office

1980

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy biplane

Aeronautics

1919

'Jason I', de Havilland DH.60G Gipsy Moth

Aeronautics

1928

Rotative steam engine by Boulton and Watt, 1788

Motive Power

1788

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Liquid-filled plastic lens television magnifier, 1935-1965

Radio Communication

1935-1965

Prosthetic/artificial limbs for a nine year old child

Orthopaedics

1971

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

Geophysics

1872

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

Biotechnology

1945

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Electronic storm surge modelling machine

Oceanography

1960-2007

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

Flying shuttle

Textile Industry

1920-1960

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Model of a Fourdrinier-type papermaking machine made by Bertrams Sciennes Ltd

Papermaking

c1935

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

Telecommunications

1925-1958

replica of the first transistor, 1947-2003

Computing & Data Processing

1947-2003

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

Experimental Chemistry

1957

Dandy car, North British Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Pye 'Cambridge International' 11-band broadcast receiver, 1953

Radio Communication

1953

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard, 1925-1960

Telecommunications

1925-1960

replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1934

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Radio Communication

1922-1925

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1951

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Whaling harpoon

Water Transport

1800-1900

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900