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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Compound monocular microscope

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

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

Telecommunications

1850

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

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

Telecommunications

1850

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

Clockmakers

1852

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

Francis Legatt Chantrey

before 1857

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

Model of street-sweeping machine.

Domestic Appliances

1850-1857

Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch

Wellcome (general)

1853

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Spectacles, gold rims, blue lenses, given to James

Ophthalmology

1853

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

J Diplock

1851