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Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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 transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

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

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Remington 44 revolver

Hand and Machine Tools

1863-1865

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

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

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

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

Printed Books

1864

Distinguished Men of Science

Elizabeth Walker

1862

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

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

Signal block bell, South Eastern Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

1862

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Siemens Morse inker, 1862

Telecommunications

1862

After The Manner Of Perugino, 1865

Photographs

1865

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Emery composition lathe operated grinding wheel

Hand and Machine Tools

1866

Clementina Maude

Photographs

1863

active 1865-1982, manufacturer of ceramics, English; British

Langley MIll Pottery

1865

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

Annie, My first Success, 1864'

Photographs

1864

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Possible self-portrait of Clementina, Lady Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Clementina and Isabella Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

Woman reflected in a mirror

Photographs

c. 1863

Two emery composition lathe operated grinding wheels

Hand and Machine Tools

1866

A bit on the new road at Rogi, near Chini, Himalaya

Photographs

1866

Original Morse tapes received by SS 'Great Eastern' while laying the 1865 transatlantic cable, unknown maker, British, 1865

Morse tapes sent to the 'Great Eastern', 1865.

Telecommunications

1865

Gettysburg. The summit of Little Round Top Hill

Photographs

1863-07

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

Trade card: John Lilley & Son

.Unattributed

1865

Isabella Grace Hawarden

Photographs

c. 1862

View of Hong Kong Island toward Kowloon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Parkesine brush or mirror with moulded female Grecian figure with tambourine

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Crystals in an ore-furnace slag, at Morfa Copper W

Metallurgy

1866