Collection

Search our collection

Clear all filters
Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Louis Pasteur’s Compound Microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1857-1865

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

Photographs

1862

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

Archive

1850-1859

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Reis telephone transmitter, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

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

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Hand-operated lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

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