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Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Distinguished Men of Science

William Walker

1862

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

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

Railways

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

Motive Power

1862

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Woman Against a Sunlit Wall

Photographs

c. 1862

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

Road Transport

c. 1861

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860

Modern Vivex colour print made from negatives of Clerk Maxwell

Photographs

c. 1930s (original 1861)

Rigged model of the PS 'Scotia'

Water Transport

1861

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Cookson typewriter

Printing & Writing

c. 1860

Barrack Hill Ottawa

Photographs

1860

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

HMS Bulldog Mechanical Marine Sounder

Oceanography

1860

Magic lantern slide showing The Moon

Cinematography

c. 1860

Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine

Motive Power

1860

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

Water Transport

1991-1783 BCE

Electric motor used by James Joule

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

‘Autoperipatetikos’ walking doll

Human Robotics

1862

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York

Photographic Technology

c.1862

Brooch with ambrotype portrait of a man

Photographic Technology

c. 1860

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

James Hall Nasmyth

1860

Model of the Smalls Lighthouse (1775-6) on a wood diorama base depicting a rock jetty and the sea

Navigation

1861-1862

Vesicular slag from the blast-furnaces at Russell Hall Iron Works

Metallurgy

1861

Parkesine sample sheet, mottled blue, green and orange

Plastics and Modern Materials

c.1862

H.G. Blair & Co

.Unattributed

1860

Peterborough Cathedral

Photographs

c. 1860

Portrait bust of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1861

Magic lantern slide showing Egyptian landscape

Cinematography

c. 1860

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Solar eclipse photograph taken with the Kew Photoheliograph

Astronomy

1860

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Possible self-portrait of Clementina, Lady Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Halifax

Photographs

1860

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

Acoustics

1917-918
Model of Henry Clayton's wire-cutting brick-making machine, scale 1:4, manufactured by Henry Clayton and Co., 1860

Clayton's brick-making machine, 1860.

Building Construction

1860

Two girls by a window

Photographs

c. 1860

Early compound beam engine

Motive Power

1860