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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

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

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Railway Timepieces

1834-1844
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Archive

1850-1859

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

North Eastern coalfield: colliery pit-head and coking ovens [1]

W Wheldon

1845

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855