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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

Coalbrookdale by Night

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg

1801

Packet of 20 Death cigarettes, London, England, 1999

Smoking

1999

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Original orrery planetary model by John Rowley, 1712-1713

Astronomy

1712-1713

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Computing & Data Processing

1991

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

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

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

Photographs

1915-1920

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Isaac Newton’s reflecting telescope (replica)

Astronomy

1668; 1924

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

Maudslay 's Lord Chancellor bench micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1805

Pneumothorax apparatus, London, England, 1901-1930

Surgery

1901-1930

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

Geophysics

1876

Barograph clock by Alexander Cumming, 1766

Time Measurement

1766

Waterloo Station

Terence Tenison Cuneo

1967

Chronoscope, England, 1921-1939

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921-1939

Analogue music synthesizer.

Acoustics

1970

Caesium atomic clock, 1955.

Time Measurement

1955

Fleming diode valve, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Trough battery, 1801-1838

Electricity and Magnetism

1801-1838

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of a ventilator, London, England, 1831-1870

Public Health & Hygiene

1831-1870

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Therapeutics

1930-1939

Surgical instrument set, cased, by Arnold and Sons

Surgery

1851-1900

Surgical instrument set, London, England, 1940

Surgery

1940

Exchequer standard yard of Queen Elizabeth I, 1588

Weighing & Measuring

1588

The London Hospital Survival Predictor, London, England, 1972

Clinical Diagnosis

1972

Toothbrush with ivoride handle, London, England, 1870-1920

Dentistry

1870-1920

Toothbrush with horsehair bristles, London, England, 1870-1920

Dentistry

1870-1920

Canary resuscitator

Mining & Ore Dressing

1920-1930

Vaccination set, London, England, 1925-1928

Public Health & Hygiene

1925-1928

Back bar for Boyle's type anaesthetic machine, London, England, 1941-1963

Anaesthesiology

1941-1963

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

Therapeutics

1909-1910

Tool for originating screw threads, made by Henry

Hand and Machine Tools

home built 405-line television receiver, 1951-1953

Television

1951-1953

Twelve 'Tabloid' sanitary towels, London, England, 1910-1940

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1910-1940

Clock used for transit of Venus observations, 1769

Time Measurement

1768-1769

Joseph Priestley's microscope made by Benjamin Mar

Experimental Chemistry

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Ready reckoner

Mathematics

1990

Mr Lunardi's New Balloon

Art

1785

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Packet of 'De Reszke Minors' cigarettes

Smoking

1920-1950

12 inch architectonic sector in ivory and silver,

Mathematics

1733-1795