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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

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

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

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

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

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

Railways

1860

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860; c.1860

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

Telecommunications

1863

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

Printed Books

1864

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

One of the first rechargeable batteries, about 1860

Electricity Supply

1860

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

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 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

Enfield carbine rifle

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1860

Early binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1861-1866

Signal block bell, South Eastern Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1862

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

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