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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

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

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

Telecommunications

1850

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

Wellcome (general)

1849

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

Clockmakers

1852

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Railway bridge section

Railway Infrastructure

1850

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

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

Marine Engines

1845

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

Clinical Diagnosis

1846-1855