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Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

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

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

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

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

Electricity and Magnetism

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

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

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

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

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968

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

Holmes magneto electric machine from Souter Point Lighthouse. (without terminals)

Holmes's electricity generator, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Main Street, Gorbals, Looking South

Photographs

1868

Coal from Acvere River, Nelson, New Zealand, Prese

Metallurgy

before 1868

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

Photographs

1866

Old Vennel, off High Street

Photographs

1868

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

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

Cinematography

c. 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

Making Charpie

Photographs

1868

Broad Close, No 167 High Street

Photographs

1868

Trade card: John Lilley & Son

.Unattributed

1865

Five O'Clock Tea

Photographs

1868

View of Hong Kong Island toward Kowloon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Norman Lockyer’s seven-prism spectroscope

Astronomy

1868

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

Metallurgy

1866

Walter rotary printing press at 'The Times', 1868.

Printing & Writing

1868

"The Model Ready Reckoner"

Mathematics

1867

Close, No 18 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Thomas De Colmar's Arithmometer, 1867

Mathematics

1867

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

Close, No 28 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Close, No 122 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

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

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1867

Piece of the original ingot of R.F. Mushet's self-hardening steel,1868

Metallurgy

1868

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

Date Palms

Photographs

ca. 1865