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Mainframe computer at the VAT office, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 1970s.

IBM 1410 computer in use at Ford Motor Company, c 1969.

Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1871.

Map of the route of the Atlantic telegraph cable, 1865.

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

Steve Heighway playing 'Pong', 26 September 1977.

Letter delivered by the first trans-Atlantic flight, 1919.