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Short sample of twin-core shore end used at Bushire in the Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

Parkesine replica of Bronze medal awarded to Alexander Parkes at the International Exhibition in 1862

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Telescoped sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

Telescoped sample of twin-core shore end cable used at Bushehr in the Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Short sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

Signal block bell, South Eastern Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1862

Bust of Robert Stephenson, English mechanical and civil engineer, 1859.

Art

1859

Bust of George Stephenson, English railway engineer, 1859

Art

1859

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

Francis Legatt Chantrey

before 1857

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Barrack Hill Ottawa

Photographs

1860

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

Archive

1859

Rigged model of the PS 'Scotia'

Water Transport

1861

Clementina Maude

Photographs

1863

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854
Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton), Northern Railway of France, 1849, scale 3:20.

Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton)

Railways

1855

Massey's patent ships' log

Navigation

1854-1857

Lightcliffe Railway Station

Photographs

c. 1855

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

Josiah Crampton

1860

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Possible self-portrait of Clementina, Lady Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Clementina and Isabella Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Spratt’s Patent Copper Lightning Conductor

Geophysics

1860

Coloured drawing depicting Lombe's silk throwing m

Textiles Machinery

1857

Sikes' Hydrometer (c. 1860), by DRING & FAGE, 19 &

Experimental Chemistry

1860

Compound monocular microscope, with chain drive on

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1858-1861

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

Photographic Technology

1855

Clarke's-type electromagnetic machine, in rectangu

Therapeutics

1854-1860

Woman reflected in a mirror

Photographs

c. 1863

Solar eclipse photograph taken with the Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1860

Calotype print by Nasmyth of lunar crater models and a refracting telescope outside his home in England, 1858

Astronomy

1858

Chaudiere Falls in Winter

Photographs

1860
c1907 - present (2010), safety lamp manufacturer, Aberdare

E Thomas & Williams Limited

1860

Astronomical Diagram. The seasons and signs of the zodiac. P

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860
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

New Patent Jewel Kaleidoscope, 1854-1863

Optics

1854-1863

Trains Snowed Up

Photographs

1860

Pasha and Bayadere

Photographs

1858

Coloured lithographic print, showing a Scutari hospital ward

Edmund Walker

1856