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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Musical transposition calculator, in circular slide-rule format

Mathematics

1820

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Ordinary Chinese razor, broad blade, middle 19th c

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Dental impression tray

Dentistry

1830-1850

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

Grand Centrifugal Railway

Brown

1840-1850

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845