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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Telegraph block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1855

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Cable 'tree' decorative souvenir of the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Lens for narrowing light beam for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1863

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

Signal block bell, South Eastern Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1862

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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE