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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

Francis Legatt Chantrey

before 1857

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

Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton)

Railways

1855

Lightcliffe Railway Station

Photographs

c. 1855

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Coloured drawing depicting Lombe's silk throwing m

Textiles Machinery

1857

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

Photographic Technology

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

Coloured lithographic print, showing a Scutari hospital ward

Edmund Walker

1856

Watercolour illustration of the interior of Scutari Hospital, Albania, 1857

.Unattributed

1857

Lowestoft-Low Lighthouse

Photographs

c. 1855

The Bridge of Boats over the Goomtee at Lucknow

Photographs

c. 1857

'Cut-throat' razor presented to T F Barnard by Michael Faraday, 1856.

Metallurgy

1856

Stamp - Guildford Gas Light and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1857

Bradford Cathedral

Photographs

c. 1855

Friese-Greene, William

1855 - 1921

Hollow plaster head and stand, representing French

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1855

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

James Swift and Son Limited

1857 - 1969

1855-present, manufacturer, Horsforth

Joseph Kaye & Sons

1855

Vue Generale de Mont Olivier

Photographs

1857

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

Photographs

c. 1855

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Chestnut tree in bloom

Photographs

c. 1855

Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister

Veterinary Medicine

1857

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Compound microscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

1855

Collodion positive stereoscopi

Photographic Technology

1857

Medal of yellow metal struck by G.R. Collis, to co

Wellcome Medals

1857

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

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

c.1855

Painting, oil on panel, First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved, by Abraham Solomon, 1855. Depicts passengers in a first class railway carriage. A young man in naval uniform leans forward to talk to an elderly gentleman and a young woman, who listen attentively. The gentleman, balding with grey side whiskers, holds a newspaper in his left hand, and is wearing a glove on his right. The woman is wearing a bonnet and hooded shawl, and is sewing. On the seats are blankets, gloves, a parasol and a bunch of red roses. Through the carriage window is a valley with hills and trees. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed. Also known as The Return (First Class).

First Class: The Meeting... and at First Meeting Loved

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

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

Worksplate, Neilson & Co., No. 387, Glasgow, part of a collection of locomotive components from Neilson locomotives shipwrecked off Islay, 1857.

Islay shipwreck components

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1857

Clockmaker's screw micrometer, by Gustav Horstmann

Industrial Metrology

1856

Rue de Tophanna

Photographs

c. 1855