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Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Clementina Maude

Photographs

1863

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

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

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

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

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Telescoped 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

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

Short sample of main Persian Gulf Cable, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Cassiopea

Photographs

1866

Parkesine brush or mirror with moulded female Grecian figure with tambourine

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

1863

After The Manner Of Perugino, 1865

Photographs

1865

Woman reflected in a mirror

Photographs

c. 1863

Original pilot Bessemer converter from which the first cast of steel was poured at the works of the Barrow Haematite Steel Company Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, in May 1865

Original pilot Bessemer converter, 1865.

Metallurgy

1865

Possible self-portrait of Clementina, Lady Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

The opening ceremony of the Metropolitan & Provincial Working Classes exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington

Art

1866

Annie, My first Success, 1864'

Photographs

1864

Steam locomotive, ‘Pet’, 0-4-0ST, 18" gauge works locomotive, London & North Western Railway, built at Crewe Railway Works in 1865, withdrawn in 1929.

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1865

Engine of the "Comet"

Art

1862

Gettysburg Field Hospital

Photographs

1863-07

Isabella and Clementina Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1863

b. 1866, amateur photographer (active in Russia), British

Stewart, Herbert Galloway

1866

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

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

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Apparatus for detecting harmonics in musical notes

Acoustics

1866

Durn Mill Steam Engine

Motive Power

1864

Coloured engraving, International Exhibition, Dubl

Art

1865

1866-1912, explorer, photographer, American

Vaniman, Chester Melvin

1866 - 1912

Beatrice

Photographs

1866