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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1858

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

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

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
1857-1969, optical instrument makers (microscope), London, England

James Swift and Son Limited

1857 - 1969

Lorgnettes, Bologna, Italy, 1857

Ophthalmology

1857

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Pasha and Bayadere

Photographs

1858

Second attack of Sir Colin Campbell

Photographs

1858

Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1857

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

The Begum Kotie

Photographs

1858

Stamp - Guildford Gas Light and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1857

Photoglyphic engraving of fern 'Adiantum capillus-veneris'

Photographs

c1858

Mont Olivier

Photographs

1857
Injector, live steam injector. designed by Henri Giffard in 1858, sectioned.

giffard live steam injector

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1858

Teneriffe Peak

Photographs

1858

Ludlow Castle

Photographs

1858

Gorka's Rifles. Mussoree Bataillons

Photographs

c. 1858

Coloured drawing depicting Lombe's silk throwing m

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Telecommunications

1858

English planisphere, 1858

Astronomy

1858

La Grande Pyramide de Ghizeh

Photographs

1857

Village de Bethanie

Photographs

1857

Le Sphinx avec les Pyramides

Photographs

1857

Piscine probatoire - Bethesda

Photographs

1857

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
Small cable sections from cable 'tree', decorative souvenir of the 1858 Transatlantic submarine telegraph cable, made by George Rapson, England, 1858.

Sections of cable from decorative cable 'tree' souvenir, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph

Telecommunications

1858
5-spindle Lock Recessing Machine, built by the Ames Manfacturing Company for the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield, 1857

wood working machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1857

First divided ring (semicircular) electrometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1857