Machines @ Science Museum

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I've visited the Science Museum many times but several of these photos were taken on a  IET Transport Networks Technical visit by on December 10, 2009

Mill engine by Burnley Ironworks Company, 1903
The governor -- early cybernetics A wooden clock by John Harrison (before his maritime clocks)
Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1, 1832
The forerunner of punched cards and tape

 

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