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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

Motive Power

1846

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848
Railway carriage, No 31, four wheeled, composite (1st & 2nd Class), built for Stockton & Darlington Railway, by Homer & Wilkinson of Darlington in 1846.

Stockton & Darlington Railway 4-wheeled composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Phenomena of Nature: The Ignis Fatuus

Josiah Wood Whymper

1849

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Stereoscopic Daguerreotype Portrait of Faraday

Photographs

c. 1848

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849

‘The New Testament, The Gospel According to Saint John’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

Astronomy

1849

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

Water Transport

1846

‘The Old Testament, The Book of JOB’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848
Half Mansell's railway wheel, 1848.

Mansell's Railway Wheel, 1848

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1848

Single needle instrument, Highton's 1848

Telecommunications

1848

Flue cinder from the reheating furnaces of Messrs.

Metallurgy

1846

Engine off the line

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

about 1848

Drawing of L. Palmer's micrometer or 'system palme

Industrial Metrology

1848-original

Cumulostratus; as produced by the inosculation of Cumulus with Cirrostratus

Luke Howard

1849

‘Grammar for the Blind’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848

‘The New Testament, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

‘The Old Testament, The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848

‘Hymns Part One’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848
Railway carriage, Stockton & Darlington Railway, composite No 59, 1847, built by Tweed dale & Barton, Carlisle, at a cost of £245. It remained in service until 1872.

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Duchenne Medical Induction Machine, Paris, France, 1849

Therapeutics

1849

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Model of Cordes and Locke's proposed marine steam turbine

Marine Engines

1846

Crystalline slag produced in the smelting of Norwe

Metallurgy

1846

Defective copper from the Governor and Company of

Metallurgy

1848

18-carat gold openface lever pocket watch signed 'VULLIAMY, mxuz LONDON'

Time Measurement

1847

Metal alloy, gilded, apothecaries half drawn weigh

Pharmacy-ware

1847

"Pimple copper," from the Haford Copper Works, Swa

Metallurgy

1848

Compound monocular microscope by Smith & Beck, 6 C

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1849

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1849

Gilt perfume case

Pharmacy-ware

1849

Engraving. Astronomical Diagram. The Earth and its Atmospher

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

1849