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Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1825

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Compound Microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Wheatstone concertina

Acoustics

1829-1851

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821

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

Archive

1850-1859

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

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

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843