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Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

Railway Models

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Schwann's microscope (no case)

Microscopes

1835

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

Railway Models

1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

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

George Cruikshank

1832

slotting machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

Telecommunications

1835-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. Telegraph Receiver, 1839-1840

Telecommunications

1839-1840

Signal lamp

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

Bourne, John Cooke

1839

Model of Wood's cross bar signal

Railway Models

1840

Cruchley's Railway Map of England & Wales / G.F. Cruchley

Railway Maps & Plans

1840

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Stanhope iron hand-operated printing press made by I. Brooks

Printing & Writing

c.1835

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

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Silver lancet case, empty

Therapeutics

1833

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Charles Green Aeronaut

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1836

model passenger locomotive 1837

Railway Models

1837

model manchester & leeds railway carriage

Railway Models

1839
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Phenakistoscope Disc of Man With Double Bass

Cinematography

1833

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

Railway Models

1839