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The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Print, 'Searching Fault' 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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

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

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

Cinematography

c. 1868

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968

Cassiopea

Photographs

1866

Close, No 193 High Street

Photographs

1868

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Norman Lockyer’s seven-prism spectroscope

Astronomy

1868

After The Manner Of Perugino, 1865

Photographs

1865

Gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1867

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1867

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

High Street, from College Open

Photographs

1868

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

Laigh Kirk Close

Photographs

1868

Close, No 31 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Close, No 122 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

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

Teachings from the Elgin Marbles', 1867 (Cyllena Wilson and Mary Hillier)

Photographs

1867

Old Vennel, off High Street

Photographs

1868

Squadron of 17 Bengal Irregular Cavalry at Fyzabad

Photographs

1868

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

Stewart, Herbert Galloway

1866

Pheasants and Pigeons

Photographs

1868

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Close, No 136 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

1868-1999, medallists; die-sinkers; mint; jewellers, Le Locle, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Huguenin Frères & Compagnie

1868 - 1999

Apparatus for detecting harmonics in musical notes

Acoustics

1866

My Favourite Picture Of All My Works. My Niece Julia

Photographs

1867-04

Coloured engraving, International Exhibition, Dubl

Art

1865

1866-1912, explorer, photographer, American

Vaniman, Chester Melvin

1866 - 1912

active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968

Beatrice

Photographs

1866

Close, No 28 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE