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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Packet of 20 Death cigarettes, London, England, 1999

Smoking

1999

Canary resuscitator

Mining & Ore Dressing

1920-1930

Original orrery planetary model by John Rowley, 1712-1713

Astronomy

1712-1713

Demonstration model of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1, 19th century.

Computing & Data Processing

1871-1900

Chronoscope, England, 1921-1939

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921-1939

Difference Engine No.2, designed by Charles Babbage, built by Science Museum

Computing & Data Processing

1991

Fleming diode valve, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

Television

1951-1953

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

Waterloo Station

Terence Tenison Cuneo

1967

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

Railway Models

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

Weighing & Measuring

1588

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1940

Surgery

1940

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1789-1795

The Ardente Hearing aid, London, England, 1920-1930

Audiology

1920-1930

Bottle of quinine hydrochloride tablets, London, England, 1901-1930

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

Pneumothorax apparatus, London, England, 1901-1930

Surgery

1901-1930

Caesium atomic clock, 1955.

Time Measurement

1955

One of Fleming's first diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Sir Hiram Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', London, England, 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769

Time Measurement

1768-1769

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

Geophysics

1876

Surgical instrument set, cased, by Arnold and Sons

Surgery

1851-1900

Tool for originating screw threads, made by Henry

Hand and Machine Tools

Pocket inhaler, London, England, 1901-1918

Therapeutics

1901-1918

Stereotaxic apparatus, England, 1900-1910

Surgery

1900-1910

Vaccination set, London, England, 1925-1928

Public Health & Hygiene

1925-1928

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

William Herschel’s ‘infrared’ prism

Optics

1795-1805

Padded cell from psychiatric ward, Farnborough Hospital, 1936-1940

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1936-1940

Analogue music synthesizer.

Acoustics

1970

Tobacco resuscitator kit, England, 1785

Therapeutics

1785

Tin of 'Allenburys' throat pastilles, London, England, 1920-1940

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1940

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Drinker-type iron lung respirator, London, England, 1930-1939

Therapeutics

1930-1939

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

Photographs

1915-1920

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889