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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

'Over London-by Rail', engraving, London, England, 1872

Gustave Doré

1872

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

door lock rescued from abergele disaster

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1868

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

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

Stewart, Herbert Galloway

1866

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

Railway Models

1873

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

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

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

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

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

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

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Savart's wheel

Acoustics

1870

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

Water Supply Metering

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

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