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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

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

Archive Collections

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

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

Motive Power

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

Art

1866-1870

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867
active c. 1894-1968, optical instrument maker, London, England

R and J Beck Limited

1867 - 1968

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

Cinematography

c. 1868

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 8

Cinematography

1870
Holmes magneto electric machine from Souter Point Lighthouse. (without terminals)

Holmes's electricity generator, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867

Old Building, High Street

Photographs

1868

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870

Romeo and Juliet', 1867

Photographs

1867

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Working model, of a pair of single horizontal cylinder engines, with steam jacketed cylinders as fitted on HMS 'Monarch' (1868)

Marine Engines

1868

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

Water Transport

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Tonsil guillotine, Paris, France, 1866-1870

Surgery

1866-1870
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968

Kineograph 'Windmill' Flicker Book

Cinematography

c. 1868

The Island Pagoda

Photographs

c. 1871

The Miners' Bridge

Photographs

1868

A lithograph depicting a solar eclipse, taken from a photograph, 1869

Astronomy

1869

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

Elizabeth Beckley

1870

Concave mirror, 12 inch diameter, in wooden frame,

Optics

1870