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'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

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

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

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855)

Clockmakers

1852

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

J Diplock

1851

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch

Wellcome (general)

1853

Spectacles, gold rims, blue lenses, given to James

Ophthalmology

1853

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1853

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

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

Lloyd Brothers and Company

1851

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Overpopulation

George Cruikshank

1851

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Astronomical diagram: Transparent Solar System

James Reynolds

1851
Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton), Northern Railway of France, 1849, scale 3:20.

Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton)

Railways

1855

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

Photographs

1853

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Cyanotype of ferns, 1853

Photographs

1853

Kilburn's stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1854
Singer Lockstitch sewing machine model of 1851, by I. M. Singer and Company or the Singer Manufacturing Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1851-1855

Example of original pattern Singer sewing machine of 1851, made c. 1853.

Textiles Machinery

1851-1855

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

Photographs

1851-08-26

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

Photographic Technology

1855

Bradford Cathedral

Photographs

c. 1855

Daguerreotype of John Avery Stranded In Rapids Above Niagara

Photographs

1853

Print. The Great Exhibition - Crystal Palace. [Pla

Ackermann and Company

1851

Bennett Street Sunday School Jubilee commemorative jug

Local History

c.1851

Lightcliffe Railway Station

Photographs

c. 1855