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Railway-inspired mug, fictional locomotive 'Jaco', c. 1831

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

Lock stitch sewing machine made by W. F. Thomas, 1853

Textiles Machinery

1853

Transverse folding spectacles, silver, hallmarked

Ophthalmology

1821-1829

Stephenson's Safety Lamp, 1839-1857

Mining & Ore Dressing

1839-1857

Phantasmagoria magic lantern

Cinematography

c. 1820

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Experimental steel alloys made by Michael Faraday (1820-1824)

Metallurgy

1820-1824

Phenakistoscope Disc of Woman and Girl Dancing

Cinematography

1833

'Map of the London and Birmingham Railway and adjacent country', c 1840

Railway Maps & Plans

1835-1845

Treadle operated ornamental lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1817-23

Natural Philosophy Diagram. Illustration of Natural Philosop

Emslie, John (engraver); Reynolds, James (publisher)

1850

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

Railway Models

1830 (original); 1967 (model)
model, scale 1:6, of Norris 4-2-0 locomotive "Austria", 1843, with tender.

Model of Norris 4-2-0 locomotive 'Austria'

Railways

1843

Machine for reproducing sculpture

Hand and Machine Tools

1826

Standard weights and measures

Weighing & Measuring

1851

Phenakistoscope Disc of Man With Racket and Ball

Cinematography

1833

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859

Whole contemporary model of 'I. Ferencz Jozef' paddle steamer

Water Transport

1846

Travelling on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831

Art

1831

Portrait bust of Samuel Hahnemann

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1835

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

Navigation

1836

Islamic astrolabe, 1849

Astronomy

1849

Massey's patent ships' log

Navigation

1854-1857

Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister

Veterinary Medicine

1857

Manchester and Birmingham Railway Carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1840

Electrostatic generator

Electricity and Magnetism

c.1820

Diorama of the West Portal of Box Tunnel, built 1841

Civil Engineering

1841

Swainson Birley Mill

Art

c. 1834

Joinery Tools

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860
Model of a sugar cane mill, c.1850

Model of a sugar cane mill

Domestic Appliances

c. 1850

Lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1822

Magic lantern slide showing The Moon

Cinematography

c. 1860

Station platform with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

c. 1850

Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1833

S. G. Hughes

1833

j c bourne book

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1846

Wheatstone's automatic telegraph transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Kentish's Engineers Slide Rule (c. 1840), three sl

Mathematics

1840-1845

Glass Lacto-Densimeter of Quevenne (c. 1860), with

Experimental Chemistry

1860

Dobereiner's Lamp (c.1830-35), by FORSTER & WEST B

Firemaking

1830-1835

Model of the Smalls Lighthouse (1775-6) on a wood diorama base depicting a rock jetty and the sea

Navigation

1861-1862

Half- Quarter Repeater Pocket Watch by Thomas Earnshaw, 1810-1823

Time Measurement

hallmarked 1823

Pewter snuff box with depiction of train

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1830-1840

Grasshopper Engine

Motive Power

1840
Steam locomotive, Hetton Colliery, 0-4-0, built by G. Stephenson and N. Wood at Hetton Colliery, Durham, withdrawn in 1912.

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1822

Movement with double wheel duplex escapement

Time Measurement

1820

Smith's Map of England & Wales, Containing the whole of the Turnpike Roads, Railways & Canals

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

Hood typewriter, 1857

Printing & Writing

1857

Prince Kung

Photographs

1860

United States standard half-bushel measure, 1842

Weighing & Measuring

1842