Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 Telecommunications 1865-1867
Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 Telecommunications 1865-1867
Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 Telecommunications 1865-1867
Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867 Telecommunications 1865-1867
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE Classical & Medieval Medicine 2050-1750 BCE
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years. Lenoir's gas engine, 1860 Heat Engines (non steam) 1865
Steam locomotive, ‘Pet’, 0-4-0ST, 18" gauge works locomotive, London & North Western Railway, built at Crewe Railway Works in 1865, withdrawn in 1929. London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST Locomotives and Rolling Stock 1865
Original pilot Bessemer converter from which the first cast of steel was poured at the works of the Barrow Haematite Steel Company Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, in May 1865 Original pilot Bessemer converter, 1865. Metallurgy 1865
Marble bust of Thomas Russell Crampton, 1816-1888, mechanical and civil engineer, by E.A. Olivieri, London, 1865. Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton Miscellanea & Curiosities 1865
Holmes magneto electric machine from Souter Point Lighthouse. (without terminals) Holmes's electricity generator, 1867 Electricity Supply 1867
