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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

Laennec's stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1815-1825

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

William Combe

1820

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

The Collier

George Walker

1813

Schwann's microscope (no case)

Microscopes

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Pair of turn pin spectacles

Ophthalmology

1823-1825

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

George Cruikshank

1832

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

Clockmakers

1823

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

slotting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Silver ear trumpet, London, England, 1814

Audiology

1814

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

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

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

One large Jar, two lids, “Fresh plaster A Apl. Ist. 1818, jar broken"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1818

Bell from Liverpool Road Station

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Smoking

1832

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

One large jar: “Fresh plaster B Apl. Ist. 1818”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1818