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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Plato

James Hall Nasmyth

1844

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

Motive Power

1846

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Henson's Flying Machine model [1843]

William Henson's model of his 'Aerial Steam Carriage'

Aeronautics

1845-1847

Telegraph receiver

Telecommunications

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

Wellcome (general)

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam

Art

1849

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

Art

1850

Hughes 'Typograph', Typewriter for blind people

Printing & Writing

1850

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Working model of the double trunk steam engines, as used on HMS 'Minotaur (1867) and HMS 'Northumberland' (1868)

Marine Engines

1845

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849
1845-c1955, optical instrument, lens and camera makers, Germany

Emil Busch AG

1845

Natural Philosophy Diagram. Illustration of Natural Philosop

Emslie, John (engraver); Reynolds, James (publisher)

1850

Whole contemporary model of 'I. Ferencz Jozef' paddle steamer

Water Transport

1846

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

Astronomy

1849
Model of a sugar cane mill, c.1850

Model of a sugar cane mill

Domestic Appliances

c. 1850

Station platform with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1850

j c bourne book

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1846

Smith's Map of England & Wales, Containing the whole of the Turnpike Roads, Railways & Canals

Railway Maps & Plans

1845