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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Avro Shackleton A.E.W. 2

Aeronautics

1954

Liquid-filled plastic lens television magnifier, 1935-1965

Radio Communication

1935-1965

Personal Computer, model Apple I

Computing & Data Processing

1976-1979

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

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

Sony 'Trinitron' colour television, 1969-1970

Radio Communication

1969-1970

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Bell's harmonic telegraph receiver, 1925-1958

Telecommunications

1925-1958

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Marconi 1.5kW transmitter used by 2LO, 1922

Radio Communication

1922

Electronic storm surge modelling machine

Oceanography

1960-2007

Avro 594 Avian Mk IIIA

Aeronautics

1928

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Three-valve radio receiver, 1922-1925

Radio Communication

1922-1925

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

Biotechnology

1945

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

Telecommunications

1925-1960

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Water Transport

1910-1937

Dandy car, North British Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

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

Geophysics

1876

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Knochenhauer spirals, 1963

Radio Communication

1963

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

Photographs

1915-1920

Japanese Piloted Bomb

Aeronautics

1943

AN/APS-20 Radar Scanner

Radar & Radio Location

Main component of Siemens ‘Elmiskop 1’ electron microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1955

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

Radio Communication

1953

Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

replica of the first transistor, 1947-2003

Computing & Data Processing

1947-2003

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

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

Water Transport

1670

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Analogue music synthesizer.

Acoustics

1970

Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester

Electricity Supply

1954-1955

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

Radio Communication

1925

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

1909 Roe I Triplane

Aeronautics

1952

Handley Page H.P. 39 "Gugnunc" Aeroplane

Aeronautics

Submerged repeater for TAT-1, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

Telecommunications

1959

Section of TAT-8 transatlantic optical fibre cable, 1989

Telecommunications

1989

Sixteen lens cine camera

Cinematography

1886-1887