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Discharge in Geissler tubes containing rarefied gases, 1887
 
Swan incandescent lamps, University College, Dundee, Scotland, 1884
 
Jacquard loom, with swags of punched cards from which pattern was woven, 1876
 
Man operating machine punching cards for Jacquard looms, 1844
 
Pascal's digital counting machine of 1642, 1751-1780
 
Clerk using a Pascal adding machine, 1835
 
Hollerith tabulator, 1894
 
George and Edward Scheutz's calculating machine
 
Leon Edoux's hydraulic passenger lift (elevator), 1887
 
Elevator (lift) by Siemens and Halske, 1890. Artist: R Wormell
 
Cut-away view of Garini's cremation furnace used in Milan, 1880
 
Cremation of the dead on funeral pyres, Calcutta, India, 1879
 
George Stephenson's locomotive Rocket c1875
 
Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon, Paris, 1851 (1887)
 
Foucault's pendulum which demonstrated the Earth's rotation and the concept of inertia, c1895
 
Demonstrating the Earth's rotation using Foucault's pendulum in a church, 1881
 
Cyrus McCormick's reaper and binder, 1877
 
Matchlock, British, c1700
 
Military multicycle by Singer & Co, 1887
 
A Dandy-Horse or Draisienne of the type fashionable c1820
 
Baron von Drais's bicycle (Draisienne). Exhibited Paris 1818. Artist: Baron von Drais
 
IK Brunel's steam ship Great Eastern showing housing for paddle wheel, and sails, 1857
 
Hand of Constantine, sculpture
 
Babylonian clay tablet with text, 7th century BC
 
Roman mosaic of a lion
 
Skull covered in turquoise mosaic, Mixtec, southern Mexico, 1400-1521
 
Mithras, ancient Persian god of light and ruler of the Universe, slaying the bull, 100-150
 
Romulus and Remus suckling from the she-wolf
 
Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash, Sumeria, c2500 BC
 
Bust of Seleucus I Nicator, Macedonian general, c4th-3rd century BC
 
Bust of Marcus Annaeus Seneca, the Elder (c55 BC-40 AD), Roman Rhetorician, c1st century
 
Atlas holding the universe on his shoulders
 
Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, c9th century BC
 
Gold pendant representing Mitlantecuhtli, Aztec god of the dead, 15th century
 
Cast gold Pre-Columbian figure pendant, Muisca, Colombia, 1000-1541
 
Gold Pre-Columbian seated figure, Quimbaya, Colombia, pre 14th-15th century
 
Mycenean dagger with lion decoration, c1450-c1100 BC
 
Strings of Cowrie shells
 
Marble portrait bust of Perikles, Athenian statesman (c490-429 BC), Roman, 2nd century BC
 
Administrative tablet of clay, Mesopotamian/Sumerian, 3100-2900 BC
 
Funerary tomb model of a bakery, Ancient Egyptian
 
Artefacts (Sphinx figures) from Turkey, 1800 BC
 
Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure, Achaemenid Persian, 5th-4th century BC
 
Statue of the Buddha, from Garvara, India, 2nd century
 
Christiaan Huyghens (1629-1695), Dutch physicist. Artist: F Henrionnet
 
UJJ Leverrier, French astronomer who calculated the position of planet Neptune in 1846 (1884)
 
Sphinx from Sparta, Ancient Greece
 
Roman carving of the Ancient British goddess Sul at Bath, England
 
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist
 
Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875), German inventor and pioneer builder of submarines
 
Wilhelm Bauer (1822-1875), German inventor and pioneer builder of submarines
 
Ship of Odysseus (Ulysses), King of Ithaca
 
Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt, presenting an offering to the god Horus
 
Ishtar Gate, Neo-Babylonian, c575 BC
 
Diana/Artemis, goddess of hunting
 
Athena of Varvakion
 
Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom
 
Prehistoric Anatolian cultural relic from Catal Huyuk, 5750 BC
 
Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist and politician
 
Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853), French astronomer, physicist and politician