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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838
1836-1906, camera manufacturer, Northern Irish; British

McKellen, Samuel Dunseith

1836 - 1906

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. Telegraph Receiver, 1839-1840

Telecommunications

1839-1840

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

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

George Cruikshank

1832

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

slotting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

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

Clockmakers

1823

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Stained plaster phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

Thomas Creswick

1837-1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1840
1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Schwann's microscope (no case)

Microscopes

1835

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

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

Telecommunications

1835-1840

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835
1820-1910, reformer of Army medical services and of nursing, British; English

Nightingale, Florence

1820 - 1910

Plan and Section of the intended Railway or Tramroad from Stockton by Darlington to the Collieries near West Auckland

Railway Maps & Plans

1822

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

William Combe

1820

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

Bell from Liverpool Road Station

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831