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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Astronomical Diagram. The seasons and signs of the zodiac. P

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Bristol Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

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

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Surgical instrument from post-mortem set

Anatomy & Pathology

1860-1870
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

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Blow pipes, part of post-mortem set

Anatomy & Pathology

1860-1870

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

Railways

1860

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Packet of 50 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Liverpool Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

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

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Brass scarificator

Therapeutics

1860-1875

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860; c.1860

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860