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'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Eclipse

Railway Models

1841

Glass flask used by Louis Pasteur, France, 1860-1864

Microbiology

1860-1864

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

Archive

1850-1859

Nitrous oxide cylinder

Anaesthesiology

1840-1868

Whale oil lamp, c 1840.

Lighting

1835-1845

Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set

Dentistry

1840-1860

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835

Male anatomical model

Anatomy & Pathology

1833-1866

Model of a ventilator, London, England, 1831-1870

Public Health & Hygiene

1831-1870

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

Science Teaching

1828

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Yard bed standard measure, inscribed: 'WEST RIDING, YORKSHIRE..'

Weighing & Measuring

1861

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

model steam locomotive

Railway Models

1826

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Compound monocular microscope

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Columnar Engine, 1862

Motive Power

1862

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Lens for narrowing light beam for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Octant made of ebony and brass

Navigation

1830-1835

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Vertical galvanometer, 1830-1870

Electricity Supply

1830-1870

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858