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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

S Knight

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

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

Textiles Machinery

1830

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

North Eastern coalfield: colliery pit-head and coking ovens [1]

W Wheldon

1845

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

model locomotion no 1

Railway Models

1825

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

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

Telecommunications

1839-1840

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Whale oil lamp, c 1840.

Lighting

1835-1845