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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Pharmacy leech jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1831-1870

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

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

S Knight

1832

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

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

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840