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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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Photographs

1843-1853
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Type used for original morse telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

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

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

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

W Wheldon

1845

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857