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Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Strada Marcante, Malta

Photographs

1856

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

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

Metallurgy

1856

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Coke from steam coal obtained at Seaton Burn Colli

Metallurgy

1856

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Keyboard for General Thompson's enharmonic organ

Acoustics

1856

Brass hand crank model of John Ericsson's three bladed duplex screw propellor

Marine Engines

1856

Close grey pig-iron, Newland Furnace, Ulverston, 1

Metallurgy

1856

Thunder pump, 1856

Telecommunications

1856
Locomotive Worksplate, Beyer Peacock & Co., Gorton Works, Manchester, 1856, used in Cannock Chase colliery.

Beyer Peacock and Company Locomotive Worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1856

Catheter, female, silver, made in London, 1856

Surgery

1856

Silver medal, awarded to surgeon Daniel J. Duigan,

Wellcome Medals

1856

4 lancets, steel and tortoiseshell, by S. Maw of L

Therapeutics

1856

Two rivets from a boiler which exploded at Messrs.

Metallurgy

before 1856

'Double sensitive' steam engine boiler pressure gauge, John Inshaw 1856 patent

Motive Power

1856

Experimental steam engine boiler pressure gauge, John Inshaw 1856 patent

Motive Power

1856

Bronze five centimes piece, perforated, and bearin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1856

Varley's lightning protector, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Teneriffe

Photographs

1856

Refined iron from the Bromford Iron Works, 1856

Metallurgy

1856
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
Trowel, used by Robert Hodgson in laying the foundation stone of the Jarrow Docks of the north 50 feet lock, on 25th September 1856. Originally presented to him as a momento. Engraved with details of the event.

Commemorative trowel used by Robert Hodgson, Jarrow Docks

Miscellanea & Curiosities

pre 1856

Horizontal sundial, inscribed: 'LIFE A SHAD-W A.D. 1856'

Time Measurement

1856

Grey pig-iron, Newland Furnaces, Ulverston, Lancas

Metallurgy

1856

Alloy of aluminium and zinc. Made in Percy's labor

Metallurgy

1856

Keyway Slotting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1856

Spectacles with round lenses and turnpin side-arms

Optics

1856

Silver lancet case, empty

Therapeutics

1856
1856-1922, physiologist, French-born, active in United Kingdom

Waller, Augustus Désiré

1856 - 1922

Coloured lithographic print, showing a Scutari hospital ward

Edmund Walker

1856

Ironbridge

Charles Joseph Hullmandel

1856
Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (first Viscount Cowdray)

Pearson, Weetman Dickinson (first Viscount Cowdray)

1856 - 1927
1856-1939, psychoanalyst, Austro-Hungarian

Freud, Sigmund

1856 - 1939

Portrait of Sir Benjamin Brodie

Art

1856

The Potteries from Basford

Art

1856

Justus von Liebig

Samuel Laurence

1856

James Watt

William Beechey

1856

Coloured aquatint of Royal Mail Day Car coaching scene

Art

1856