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'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

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

J Diplock

1851

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

Lloyd Brothers and Company

1851

'British Ferns' insert from 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns', 1853

Photographs

1851-08-26

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee commemorative jug

Local History

c.1851

Moon: Copernicus and crater

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

Magic lantern slide of the Great Exhibition Royal Carriage procession

Cinematography

c. 1851

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

Water Supply & Sanitation

c1851
1851-1921, engineer; electrical instrument maker; photographer, French

Carpentier, Jules

1851 - 1921

Destruction of the "Victoria and Albert" balloon on Monday evening, June 16th, 1851, severely injuring Mr. and Mrs. Graham the aeronauts

Ackermann and Company

1851

Marble bust by Butler 1851, of English surgeon Sam

Surgery

1851

Magic lantern slide of the Great Exhibition Royal Carriage procession

Cinematography

c. 1851

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Printing

Art

1851

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Morocco leather case, inside wooden case, for brass kilogramme weight

Weighing & Measuring

1851

pewter liquid measure for double centilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Mahogany case, for Sang's Platometer, planimeter

Mathematics

1851

[One only of] Two Match Boxes

Firemaking

1851

pewter liquid measure for centilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851
Locomotive Worksplate, North Eastern Railway, "No 281 Kitson Thompson & Hewitson Leeds 1851", brass, from 2-2-2 well tank locomotive "Aerolite", for Great Exhibition of 1851, purchased by Leeds Northern Railwayin 1852, to North Eastern Railway at Gateshead 1869, renumbered 1478 in 1883, renumbered 66 in 1885, rebuilt to 4-2-2T compound in 1892, rebuilt to 2-2-4T in 1902, to London & North Eastern Railway as No. 66 Class 11, withdrawn & put on display in 1934.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1851
Model railway locomotive, Dublin & Kingstown Railway, 2-2-2 tank locomotive, "Alexandra", 1851, said to have been named "Alexandra" after pulling the train used by the Prince and Princess of Wales on their official visit to Dublin in 1865.

Model of locomotive "Alexandra", Dublin and Kingstown Railway

Railway Models

1851

Print, [Great Exhibition 1851] a view of the Cryst

George Baxter

1851

Print. The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace. [Pla

Ackermann and Company

1851

Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables

Art

1851

Professor John Westwood, 1805-1893. Lithograph by

Art

1851

Spooner's Perspective View of The Interior of the Crystal Palace and Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851

William Spooner

1851

Geographical Diagram. Ethnographical map showing the Distrib

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

1851

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

Joseph Francis Burrell

1851

The Opening of the Great Hive of the World

David Bogue

1851

Astronomical diagram: Transparent Solar System

James Reynolds

1851

View of the building in Hyde Park for the Great Ex

Art

1851

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mould and moulded rubber plaque

Plastics and Modern Materials

1851

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Model of machine for making drain pipes.

Model of machine for making drain pipes

Building Construction

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee Medal

Local History

1851

Pewter liquid measure for demilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

pewter liquid measure for demi decilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851
Gothic case double needle telegraph instrument, by the Electric Telegraph Company, London, England, 1851.

Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle telegraph in Gothic case, 1851.

Telecommunications

1851