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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

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

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
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

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
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
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‘Pet’, 0-4-0ST, 18" gauge works locomotive, London & North Western Railway, built at Crewe Railway Works in 1865, withdrawn in 1929.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

View of Hong Kong Island toward Kowloon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Operative splint, used by Lister

Surgery

1865
Patent model of improved orrery by John G. Moore of Philadelphia, US Patent 51072 dated 21st November 1865, with original tag.

Patent model of orrery planetary mechanism, 1865

Astronomy

1865

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

Date Palms

Photographs

ca. 1865

Iron tray coated with tortoise-shell lacquer, made

Metallurgy

1865

Coloured engraving, International Exhibition, Dubl

Art

1865

The Lake - Kandy

Photographs

ca. 1865

One-Tree Hill - Matheran

Photographs

ca. 1865

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Whitworth Shaping Machine No. 298

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1865

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

The 'Yarrows' - Simla

Photographs

ca. 1865

View on the Railway Incline - Ceylon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Summit of the Manirung Pass, 18600 feet - Spiti

Photographs

ca. 1865

Lignite from Nicaragua

Metallurgy

before 1865

Changing back for Billcliff st

Photographic Technology

c. 1865

Painting of SS "Scotland"

Art

1865

Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

1865

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

Photographs

1865-05

Fluted Roller Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1865

'Henry Taylor, A Portrait'

Photographs

1865

Chilian copper regulus, imported into Swansea in 1

Metallurgy

1865

Henry Taylor

Photographs

1865

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Ewen Wrottesley Hay Cameron

Photographs

1865

Shah Hamadan Mosque - Srinagar

Photographs

ca. 1865

View from the top of Dhobie's Waterfall, showing Elphanston Point, Mahableshwar

Photographs

ca. 1865

Head of the Wanja Valley, Himalayas

Photographs

ca. 1865

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mouthpiece from inhaler by Dr. Nelson in 1865

Therapeutics

1865

Gilt Tralles alcoholometer by Ladd and Oertling, b

Experimental Chemistry

1865

Delhi: Mausoleum of Humayun

Photographs

ca. 1865

Sunset on Manus Bul, Kashmir

Photographs

ca. 1865

Chowk Point - Matheran

Photographs

ca. 1865

Chini, Himalayas

Photographs

ca. 1865

Happy Valley Racecourse, Hong Kong

Photographs

ca. 1865
Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by Charles Emmanuel of Paris, patented in America [Patent No. 45,954 January 17, 1865] and made by T. Auvray, Paris.

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by

Astronomy

1865