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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Liquid-filled plastic lens television magnifier, 1935-1965

Radio Communication

1935-1965

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Avro Shackleton A.E.W. 2

Aeronautics

1954

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

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

Biotechnology

1945

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

Telecommunications

1925-1958

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Type C crystal radio receiver

Radio Communication

c.1925

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Photographs

1915-1920

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Kendrew's original model of the myoglobin molecule

Experimental Chemistry

1957

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

Water Transport

1910-1937

Flying shuttle

Textile Industry

1920-1960

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

Telecommunications

1925-1960

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Socata Rallye MS 880B G-AYTA

Aeronautics

1971

Dandy car, North British Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

replica of the first transistor, 1947-2003

Computing & Data Processing

1947-2003

British Railways Special Cattle Van, 1951

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1951

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester

Electricity Supply

1954-1955

Analogue music synthesizer.

Acoustics

1970

Northrop loom

Textile Industry

1947

Model of Stephenson's Rocket

Railway Models

Whole model, full rigged, of ship of the line, H.M.S. 'Prince'

Water Transport

1670

Rolls-Royce Avon 100 Turbine Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1950

Arkwright's Water Frame

Textile Industry

1775

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

Telecommunications

1870-1877

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

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

Radio Communication

1953

Robert's 'Classic 2000' digital radio, 2001

Radio Communication

2001

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Raytheon Model M-1601 console television receiver

Television

1950

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

papermaking machine model

Papermaking

c1935

AN/APS-20 Radar Scanner

Radar & Radio Location

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955