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Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

Locks & Fastenings

1850

Lord's calculator, a circular slide-rule for texti

Mathematics

1837-1848

Diamond-frame pattern sextant with case.

Navigation

1845-1855

Bone snuff box, rectangular, with rounded edges, e

Smoking

1830-1850

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

Motive Power

1825

Road-rail steam carriage, model, made by John Stag

Road Transport

1842

Lady Elizabeth Feilding standing against a backdrop

Photographs

8 April 1842

Manchester

Thomas Higham

1834

Draper's daguerreotype of Solar Spectrum, dated July 27th 1842

Photographs

1842

Copy letter, Isambard Kingdom Brunel to ?, 22 March 1839

Archive Collections

1839

Lithograph: Printed by C. Hullmandel after T. Broo

Brookes, T

1833

Cystoseira Granulata

Photographs

1843-1853

18-carat gold openface lever pocket watch signed 'VULLIAMY, mxuz LONDON'

Time Measurement

1847

Geographical Diagram. Geological map of the World. Published

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

1850

Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

Replica of Camera used by W H Fox Talbot

Photographic Technology

1839

improvements in the arrangement & combination of the parts of loco engine

Documents

1841

Phenakistoscope disc

Cinematography

c. 1830s

Plaid Wool Dress, 1845

Industrial Chemistry

1845

Daguerreotype Portrait of a Young Man

Photographs

1845-1855

Albion Printing Press, 1838

Printing & Writing

1838

Phenomena of Nature: The Rainbow

Josiah Wood Whymper

1849

North Eastern coalfield: colliery pit-head and coking ovens [2]

W Wheldon

1845

Commemorative Jug, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c.1830

Julia Margaret Cameron and her daughter

Photographs

1845-02-10
Cast metal bridge plaque with laurel wreaths surrounding the date "1855", from Great Howard Street railway bridge in Liverpool, originally mounted with a bronze bust of the deputy chairman of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, William Stuart.

bridge plaque - 1855

Railway Infrastructure

1855

model, scale 1:2, segmental turning lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

1830

Phrenological head and penholder, England, 1829-1850

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1829-1850

Cyanotype of ferns, 1853

Photographs

1853

Cyanotype of Botrychium gracile, 1853

Photographs

1853

‘Grammar for the Blind’ printed in Frere tactile system for the blind, 1848

Printing & Writing

1848

Commemorative Jug, Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1830
Model of airship, steam driven dirigible by Henri Giffard 1852, scale 1:50

The Giffard Airship

Aeronautics

1852

Achromatic microscope made for J J Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Whole contemporary shipyard model, H.M.S. 'Albion'

Water Transport

1842

The Alchemist

Celestin Nanteuil

1845-1855

Phrenological head of Brazilian tribesman, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1826

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1826

Effects of the Rail Road

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1831-07-06

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy with spare pot, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Frederick Winsor

John Alfred Vinter

1830

Cyanotype of Lastrea cristata, 1853

Photographs

1853

The Conchologist

George Spratt

c. 1831
Steam locomotive, Grand Junction Railway, (London & North Western Railway), 2-2-2 No 49, "Columbine", designed by Alexander Allen, built at Crewe Works in 1845, withdrawn in 1902.

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Henry Kingsford of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway dated 12 June 1830

Archive Collections

1830-06-12

Boats on a river

Photographs

c. 1855

'British Ferns' insert from 'Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns', 1853

Photographs

1851-08-26

Geographical Diagram. Geological Map of England

James Reynolds

1849

Variation Compass and magnetometer, 1837-1843

Terrestrial Magnetism

1837-1843

Surgical instrument set, owned by Dr Evans in the Crimea

Surgery

1851-1855

Diagrams of Natural Philosophy

James Reynolds

1850