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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

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

Thomas Rowlandson

1820

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835
1824-1880, surgeon, pathologist; anthropologist, French

Broca, Paul

1824 - 1880

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

Textiles Machinery

1830
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Calculator for treadwheel labour, 1823

King George III

1823

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Balloon leaving Dover

Edward William Cocks

1835-1840

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Withering's Botanical microscope late form

Microscopes

1820
1822-1911, biostatistician, human geneticist & eugenicist, English, British

Galton, Sir Francis

1822 - 1911

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

Signal lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

Photographs

1835-08
1829-1901, physiologist, German

Fick, Adolf Eugen

1829 - 1901

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

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

Smoking

1832

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

Telecommunications

1835-1840

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835