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Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Anatomical drawing of a human skeleton

John Linnell

1840
1843-1910, microbiologist and Nobel prize winner, German

Koch, Robert

1843 - 1910

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

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

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wo

Materials Science Gallery

c. 1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Signal lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1840

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Hand printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Fox dip and intensity apparatus

Terrestrial Magnetism

c. 1840

Eclipse

Railway Models

1841

model of london & croydon railway semaphore signal

Railway Models

1841

Model of Wood's cross bar signal

Railway Models

1840

model of great western railway disc and crossbar signal

Railway Models

1841

Grasshopper Engine

Motive Power

1840

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Manchester and Birmingham Railway Carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1840

Great Western Railway tipstaff

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1841
1842-1890, inventor, motion picture pioneer, Metz, France

Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin

1842 - 1890

Six paper photographs by Robert Hunt

Photographs

1844
model, scale 1:6, of Norris 4-2-0 locomotive "Austria", 1843, with tender.

Model of Norris 4-2-0 locomotive 'Austria'

Railways

1843

Cruchley's Railway Map of England & Wales

Railway Maps & Plans

1840

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
1842-1877, manufacturers, London

Parker Field & Sons

1842 - 1877

Whole contemporary shipyard model, H.M.S. 'Albion'

Water Transport

1842

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Standard Gallon volume measure, for the USA

Weighing & Measuring

1840-1842

Lady Elizabeth Feilding standing against a backdrop

Photographs

8 April 1842
Stone plaque, Slamannan Railway, commemorating the opening of the Slamannan Railway, incorporated 3/7/1835, opened 31/8/1840, broken into two pieces, removed from the base of a water tower at the foot of the Causewayend Incline near Manuel in Stirlingshire.

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1840

Diorama of the West Portal of Box Tunnel, built 1841

Civil Engineering

1841

United States standard half-bushel measure, 1842

Weighing & Measuring

1842
Keystone from a decorative arch at South Stockton station on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, about 1842. The face of the stone depicts the head of an old, bearded man surrounded by vines and ivy, probably a Green Man or perhaps the Greek and Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus. On the reverse of the stone are bunches of grapes and vine leaves.

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

Railway Infrastructure

1842

Whitworth Lathe No. 4

Hand and Machine Tools

1841

Drilling machine for hand or power automatic feed

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1840

J. Abbot & Co. Ltd Davy lamp,

Coal Mining

c. 1840