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Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Distinguished Men of Science

William Walker

1862

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

One of four original Swan and Raven models

Froude

1867

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Compound Microscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860-1865

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Railways

1860

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Columnar Engine, 1862

Motive Power

1862

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

Motive Power

1866

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Set of seven cable samples and corresponding cable stubs

Telecommunications

c.1865

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Early binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1861-1866

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

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Woman Against a Sunlit Wall

Photographs

c. 1862

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

Textiles Machinery

1867

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

Road Transport

c. 1861

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1860

Telescoped sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

Short sample of shore end Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Telecommunications

1863

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860