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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

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

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

Nurses sash for Scutari Hospital, owned and worn by Charlotte Wilsdon

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

c.1855

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

Francis Legatt Chantrey

before 1857

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06
Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton), Northern Railway of France, 1849, scale 3:20.

Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton)

Railways

1855

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Bradford Cathedral

Photographs

c. 1855
1857-1969, optical instrument makers (microscope), London, England

James Swift and Son Limited

1857 - 1969

Cosmorama Stereoscope, English, 1854-1865

Optics

1854-1857

Crowland: Crowland Abbey

Photographs

c. 1855

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

Photographic Technology

1855

Vue Generale d'Athenes avec l'acropolis

Photographs

c. 1855

Lightcliffe Railway Station

Photographs

c. 1855

1:4 scale model of Reeve's patent combined seed

Agricultural Engineering

1854

Lorgnettes, Bologna, Italy, 1857

Ophthalmology

1857

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Massey's patent ships' log

Navigation

1854-1857

Rue de Tophanna

Photographs

c. 1855

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Kilburn's stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1854

Lowestoft-Low Lighthouse

Photographs

c. 1855

Stamp - Guildford Gas Light and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1857

Aquatint, monochrome (black), Mars, as seen at Mad

Art

1854

Mont Olivier

Photographs

1857
100x125mm dark brown rectangular union case same as 1990-5036/UC01, UC02 and UC14. Exterior design has a central scene showing people dancing with a man playing a fiddle on the left and a decorative border of flowers, bread and corn. No picture.

Union Case 'The Country Dance' Manufactured by S. Peck and Company

Photographs

c. 1856

Keyboard for General Thompson's enharmonic organ

Acoustics

1856

Coloured aquatint of Royal Mail Day Car coaching scene

Art

1856
Cast metal bridge plaque with laurel wreaths surrounding the date "1855", from Great Howard Street railway bridge in Liverpool, originally mounted with a bronze bust of the deputy chairman of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, William Stuart.

bridge plaque - 1855

Railway Infrastructure

1855
Bronze bust of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Deputy Chairman William Stuart, by Edward Davis, 1855. The bust was mounted on Great Howard Street bridge in Liverpool.

Bronze bust of William Stuart

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1855