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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Louis Pasteur’s compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867
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

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Basin from a pan closet

Domestic Appliances

1860-1870

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Spare handle for medical intruments

Anatomy & Pathology

1860-1870

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867