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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

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

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Binocular stereoscopic camera no. 12

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Early form of Amsler planimeter c. 1856

Mathematics

1854-1856

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

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

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

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

Clockmakers

1852

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

J Diplock

1851

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister

Veterinary Medicine

1857

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch

Wellcome (general)

1853

Spectacles, gold rims

Ophthalmology

1853

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Massey's patent ships' log

Navigation

1854-1857

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

Francis Legatt Chantrey

before 1857

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

Photographic Technology

1855

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

H. Lemon

1851

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Camp du 97th Regiment Anglais

Photographs

1855
Longcase clock by Isaac Jackson, Wylam, ordered by Robert Stephenson in 1857 and installed in the General Manager's Office at R. Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works, Newcastle, 14.12.1858

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

Railway Timepieces

1857