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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Morse key, 1850-1870.

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

Printing & Writing

c.1870

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

Archive

1850-1859

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Binocular stereoscopic camera no. 12

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853