Leaflet for a work entitled 'Cases of successful practice with Perkin's Patent Metallic Tractors'.
1801
Near Wellington, Shropshire
1821
Half-penny coin
1806
'Puffing Billy' Locomotive with Tender and Rails
1813-1814
Phrenological head of Francis Gall
1823
Phrenological head of unidentified individual
1824
Euston Station gates
1838
Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture
1829
Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight
1829
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835
1835
Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942
1842
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840
1839-1840
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838
1838
Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840
1835-1840
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851
1845-1851
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846
1837-1846
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine
c.1825
Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830
1830
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins
1843-1853
Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977
1977; 1204-1206
Tourniquet, Petit's type
1823-1829
Railway Office, Liverpool
1831
Phenakistoscope disc with handle
circa 1830s
Grasshopper Engine
1840
Fifty-nine early prints from glass negative of 40 ft. telescope
1839
Calotype Camera
1838-1848
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
First closed diving helmet and breastplate
1839
Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland
1845
Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840
1840
Map of the East Indian Railway
1846
Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister
1826
Graphic Illustrations of Animals
1840-1850
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806
1805-1806
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
The Collier
1813
Power Loom Factory of Thomas Robinson Esqr, Stockport
1849-1850
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Cloud study by Luke Howard
1803-1811
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853