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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

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

Archive

1850-1859

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Lens for narrowing light beam for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

Road Transport

c. 1861

Binocular stereoscopic camera no. 12

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

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

Telecommunications

1850

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Early form of Amsler planimeter c. 1856

Mathematics

1854-1856

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

Langevin, Paul

1850-1860

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Cable 'tree' decorative souvenir of the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851