Key Stage 3: Industrial Revolution

Watch the video on Babbage's ingenious machine, or learn about the mathematical instruments used before the invention of computers.

• Computing

The ingenious use of steam to generate power helped Britain become the world’s first industrial nation.

• Energy Hall

The Mathematics Gallery exhibits mathematical instruments and models from the seventeenth century to present day.

• Mathematics

This history of the telegraph, telephone and radio is illustrated with many original objects and hands-on displays.

• Telecommunications

Marvel at the elegance and ingenuity of timekeeping instruments in this rich collection of more than 500 timepieces.

• Measuring Time

What happens when you take an object from one museum and ask experts from another to write its story?  First Time Out, a new series of exhibits, is putting hidden treasures from five London museums on display for the first time.

• First time out

• Ten Climate Stories