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Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Telecommunications

1850

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

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

Clockmakers

1852

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Railway bridge section

Railway Infrastructure

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch

Wellcome (general)

1853

Spectacles, gold rims

Ophthalmology

1853

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

J Diplock

1851

Morse embosser

Telecommunications

1853

Hughes 'Typograph', Typewriter for blind people

Printing & Writing

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

Art

1850

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Harvey demonstrating to King Charles I his theory of the circulation of the blood, print, London, England, 1851

H. Lemon

1851

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Miners dial

Coal Mining

c. 1850

Frontispiece of 'Cyanotypes of British And Foreign Ferns' album, 1853

Photographs

1853

Print, The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace

Phillip Brannan

1851

Wheatstone's kaleidophone

Acoustics

1850
Flat iron one of three, by J. & .J.Siddons, West Bromwich, England, marked 'No.8', 1850

Flat iron one of three

Domestic Appliances

1850
Railway carriage, four wheeled, first class, three compartments, Eastern Counties Railway, built in 1851. Length over buffers: 20' 6"; height: 6'

Eastern Counties Railway First class railway carriage, 1851

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1851

Cyanotype of ferns, 1853

Photographs

1853

Moon: Copernicus and crater

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee Medal

Local History

1851

Nasmyth reflecting telescope on turntable stand, 1850-1852

Astronomy

1850-1852