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Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Clementina Maude

Photographs

1863

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

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

Telecommunications

1858

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859

Crayon sketch of unnamed craters on the Moon

James Hall Nasmyth

1860

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

Telescoped sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

Telescoped sample of twin-core shore end cable used at Bushehr in the Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Short sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Telecommunications

1863

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

Printed Books

1864

Bust of Robert Stephenson, English mechanical and civil engineer, 1859.

Art

1859

Bust of George Stephenson, English railway engineer, 1859

Art

1859

Glass flask used by Louis Pasteur, France, 1860-1864

Microbiology

1860-1864

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Woman Against a Sunlit Wall

Photographs

c. 1862

Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine

Motive Power

1860

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

'Sutherland' steam fire engine

Firefighting

1863

Parkesine replica of Bronze medal awarded to Alexander Parkes at the International Exhibition in 1862

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Rigged model of the PS 'Scotia'

Water Transport

1861