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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Snow-type chloroform inhaler

Anaesthesiology

1848-1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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

Archive

1850-1859

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851