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Commemorative Bowl, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1834

Album of cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards by Julia Margaret Cameron, c 1870

Photographs

1860-1880

Duboscq-Soleil Polarimeter

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1875

Binocular Microscope by J.B. Dancer, 1861. Includi

Microscopes

1861

Stereoscopic Daguerreotype Portrait of Faraday

Photographs

c. 1848

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Great Western Railway tipstaff

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1841

Parkesine brush or mirror with moulded female Grecian figure with tambourine

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

'Silvertown Set' telephone with Blake transmitter, 1879-1890

Telecommunications

1879-1880

Universal model microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck,

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1861-1870

Fourneyron Turbine, 1837

Motive Power

1837

Silk Fabric Dyed with Mauveine of a Pattern Supplied to Queen Victoria

Industrial Chemistry

c. 1860

Cystoseira Granulata

Photographs

1843-1853

Grasshopper Engine

Motive Power

1840

'Boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1869

"Trident" electric log

Navigation

1861-1873

Lathe by J. Whitworth & Co, c. 1870

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

Electric pen

Printing & Writing

1877

Collection of views taken in Italy by or under the direction of Dr A J Ellis

Photographs

1840-1841
A daguerreotype of Jabez Hogg and Mr Johnson, 1843; Jabez Hogg photographing Mr Johnson in Richard Beard's studio, c 1843. A daguerreotype from 1843 which is thought to be the first photograph showing a photographer at work. The image depicts Jabez Hogg photographing W S Johnson in the studio of Richard Beard.

Jabez Hogg photographing Mr Johnson in Richard Beard's studio, c 1843

Photographs

1840-1848

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849
Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, Swannington Incline Winding Engine, 1832, horizontal.

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

Stationary Engines

1832

Old Vennel, off High Street

Photographs

1868

Squadron of 17 Bengal Irregular Cavalry at Fyzabad

Photographs

1868

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Fox dip and intensity apparatus

Terrestrial Magnetism

c. 1840

Ross 'Wheel of Life' magic lantern slide

Cinematography

1871

Casella-Miller Mercury Deep-Sea Thermometer, 1869-1872

Oceanography

1869-1872

Phenakistoscope Disc of Man With Double Bass

Cinematography

1833

Magic lantern slide depcicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice with a Long Neck

Cinematography

1870s

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857
Inspection saloon, North London Railway, No 1032, built in 1872 at Bow Works.

Directors Saloon, North London Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1872

Rectangular carton pierre book cover, mid 19th century.

Plastics and Modern Materials

1850-1880

Portable chemistry set

Experimental Chemistry

1880

Sundial from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1833

Allison's differential binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1859-1865

Bosanquet's Enharmonic Harmonium

Acoustics

1872-1873

Carding, drawing and roving

Art

c. 1834

Tongue depressor, Europe, 1831-1870

Clinical Diagnosis

1831-1870

Medicine chest used by David Livingstone, Europe, 1860-1873

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1861-1873

Conoid in contact with a hyperbolic paraboloid, surface string model

Mathematics

1872

Small bottle containing catgut ligatures, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1869-1875

Surgery

1869-1875

String of silkworm cocoons, used by Louis Pasteur, 1865-1870

Microbiology

1865-1870

Junker-type inhaler for anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1867-1880

Nasmyth reflecting telescope on turntable stand, 1850-1852

Astronomy

1850-1852

Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

1863

Clover's obstetric crutch

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1855-1865

Cyanotype of Polypodium calcareum, 1853

Photographs

1853

Lantern slide: Giant Hand from 'The Heart of Stone'

Cinematography

1860-1880

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862