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Sepia photograph of the Rocket steam powered rail engine outside the Patent Office Museum, London, 1876

© National Railway Museum/Science & Society Picture Library

The Rocket Locomotive in transit from the status of invention to icon of applied science, in transit from the Patent Office Museum to the Loan Collection in March 1876

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/140104/002