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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sans Pareil

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1840-1850

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

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

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Ackermann and Company

1831

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858