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Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

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

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

'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

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

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

Clockmakers

1852

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

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

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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Cyanotype of Equisetum sylvaticum, 1853

Photographs

1853

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Figure of Alexander Humboldt

Carl Wolgast

1851

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

H. Lemon

1851

Lock stitch sewing machine made by W. F. Thomas, 1853

Textiles Machinery

1853

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851
1853-1914, police officer, French

Bertillon, Alphonse

1853 - 1914
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
Medal, Bradley Wood Fete, 28-29 June 1855. White metal, 36 mm diameter. Obverse showing South Devon Railway locomotive. Reverse, scene of building; Legend, Teignmouth & Dawlish Infirmary, Established 1848, supported by voluntary contributions.

Medal, Bradley Wood Fete

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1855

Pattern of lines of force produced by Faraday, about 1852

Electricity and Magnetism

1851-1855

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Lightcliffe Railway Station

Photographs

c. 1855

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

Photographs

1853

Astronomical diagram: Telescopic Appearance of the Moon

James Reynolds

c. 1851
active 1853-1921, optical, mathematical, philosophical & electrical inst. maker, London, England

Elliott Brothers

1853 - 1921