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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

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

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Photographs

1843-1853

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860
1836-1917, physician, British

Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett

1836 - 1917

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

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

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

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

Archive

1850-1859

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863