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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

Model of Lewes Railway Station, 1850s

Civil Engineering

1851-1860

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

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

Archive

1850-1859

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

Archive

1850-1859

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

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

Railways

1860

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

Langevin, Paul

1850-1860

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854