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Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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, 'Large Buoy' 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
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

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

Railway Models

1867-1868

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

Cinematography

c. 1868
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
Holmes magneto electric machine from Souter Point Lighthouse. (without terminals)

Holmes's electricity generator, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867

Old Building, High Street

Photographs

1868

Romeo and Juliet', 1867

Photographs

1867

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Working model, of a pair of single horizontal cylinder engines, with steam jacketed cylinders as fitted on HMS 'Monarch' (1868)

Marine Engines

1868

Kineograph 'Windmill' Flicker Book

Cinematography

c. 1868

The Miners' Bridge

Photographs

1868

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

c.1865

Walter rotary printing press at 'The Times', 1868.

Printing & Writing

1868

Beatrice

Photographs

1866

Gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1867

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1867

After the War...Field at Cold Harbour

Photographs

1865

Norman Lockyer’s seven-prism spectroscope

Astronomy

1868

'Boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1868

Painting of SS "Scotland"

Art

1865

Close, No 75 High Street

Photographs

1868

Close, No 122 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868
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

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

"The Model Ready Reckoner"

Mathematics

1867

Cassiopea

Photographs

1866

Coloured engraving, International Exhibition, Dubl

Art

1865

Old Vennel, off High Street

Photographs

1868

Squadron of 17 Bengal Irregular Cavalry at Fyzabad

Photographs

1868

Henry Taylor

Photographs

1865

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Michaux-Perreaux steam motor cycle scale model

Road Transport

1868

Whitworth Shaping Machine No. 298

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1865

Close, No 193 High Street

Photographs

1868