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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

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

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

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

Schwann's microscope (no case)

Microscopes

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

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

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

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

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

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

Archive

1826

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

Road Transport

1830

Part of Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828

Surveying

1826-1828

Engraved lancet case

Surgery

1826

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1824

model steam locomotive

Railway Models

1826

Satirical illustration of the polluted River Thames, by George Cruikshank, London, England, 1832

George Cruikshank

1825-1835