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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831
1818-1865, physician, Hungarian

Semmelweis, Ignaz Philipp

1818 - 1865
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

Photographs

1835-08

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Sunderland ware jug decorated with pink lustre ban

Civil Engineering

1813

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 1 to 36, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

Archive

1826

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1829

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 37 to 72, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826