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Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

J Diplock

1851

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee commemorative jug

Local History

c.1851

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mould and moulded rubber plaque

Plastics and Modern Materials

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee Medal

Local History

1851

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

Photographs

1851-08-26

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
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

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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Moon: Gassendi and crater

James Hall Nasmyth

1851

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
Model steam locomotive, Great Western Railway, 1:12 scale, (2-2)-2-2 locomotive "Iron Duke", with tender, as rebuilt c.1851.

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

Railway Models

1851

Carapace of turtle, in 2 sections in display box,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1851-930

Six hexagonal iron weights, 1/2 hectogramme

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Six hexagonal iron weights, 1 kilogramme

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Brass Kilogramme weight, for 1851 Great Exhibition

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

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

Weighing & Measuring

1851
Oak snuff box, circular, detachable lid with inset medallion commemorating the Great Exhibition, 1851, Heaton factory, maker, English, c. 1851

Oak snuff box, circular, detachable lid with inset

Smoking

1851

Coal from Labuan, N.W. of Borneo, presented by J.

Metallurgy

before 1851

Six hexagonal iron weights, 1 hectogramme

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Six hexagonal iron weights, 1 hectogramme

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Aesculapius

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1851

pewter liquid measure for double centilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Exhibition medal for 1851 Great Exhibition, awarded to John Braham

Optics

1851

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

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

Model of machine for making drain pipes

Building Construction

1851

Pewter liquid measure for 1 litre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

pewter liquid measure for centilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

pewter liquid measure for demi decilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Pewter liquid measure for demilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851
Bell, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, embossed '1851', ex Bricklayers Arms Station.

Bell, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1851

Gutta percha inkstand, c. 1851.

Plastics and Modern Materials

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

pewter liquid measure for decilitre

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1851

Box of microweights for rain gauge testing. 8 miss

Meteorology

after 1851

Marble bust by Butler 1851, of English surgeon Sam

Surgery

1851
Model of Joyce's single cylinder pendulous oscillating engine.

Model of Joyce's single cylinder pendulous oscilla

Motive Power

1851

Sang's Platometer, planimeter, 1851; in mahogany c

Mathematics

1851

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case;

Photographs

1851

Plaster cast of the face of a man from the Arawa

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1851