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'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

George Cruikshank

1832

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd class railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Pharmacy leech jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1831-1870

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

Telecommunications

1840-1860

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Charriere-type double spine saw

Anatomy & Pathology

1820-1860

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

Alfred Edward Chalon

1840

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1831

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Whitworth Pillar Drilling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1860

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah W

Motive Power

after 1859

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Slotting machine, made by Sharp Roberts and Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

1835

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830