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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Difference Engine No 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Railway Timepieces

1834-1844

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Pharmacy leech jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1831-1870

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

Photographs

1843-1853

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Windows From Inside South Gallery, Lacock Abbey

Photographs

1835-08

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Archive

1850-1859

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860