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Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

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

Archive

1850-1859

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

Telecommunications

1835-1845
1836-1906, camera manufacturer, Northern Irish; British

McKellen, Samuel Dunseith

1836 - 1906

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

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

Photographs

1843-1853

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843