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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

Telecommunications

1863-7

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

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

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

Printed Books

1864

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Early binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1861-1866

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Sutton Panoramic Camera

Photographic Technology

1860-1866

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

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

Josiah Crampton

1860

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