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Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Temporary Exhibitions

1870

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Print, 'Large Buoy' 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

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

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

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Trial model and spare wheels for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Lathe by J. Whitworth & Co, c. 1870

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

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

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968

Wharfedale stop-cylinder printing press, 1865-1875

Printing & Writing

1870

Old Vennel, off High Street

Photographs

1868

Cassiopea

Photographs

1866

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870

Apparatus for detecting harmonics in musical notes

Acoustics

1866

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

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

Holmes's electricity generator, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867

Henry Flather Collection

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1866-1870

Beatrice

Photographs

1866

Magic lantern slide: Exploding pie

Cinematography

1870

The Miners' Bridge

Photographs

1868

Tonsil guillotine, Paris, France, 1866-1870

Surgery

1866-1870

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