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Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

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

Railways

1860

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years.

Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

Josiah Crampton

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

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Telecommunications

1858

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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