Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Pocket Microscope

1832-1841

Ten slabs of unannealed glass

1825-1835

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

1829

Balloon over woodland

1835-1845

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

1836-1839

The Flying Steam Company, to China in Twenty-four Hours Certain

circa 1843

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

John Ericsson

1845

Bunbury's Whims

1828

London & Birmingham Railroad. / T.T. Bury

1837

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

London and Birmingham Railway

1839

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Manuscript diary of Alfred Kitching

1843-1844

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

A scene in a library

1841-1844

Chess players

circa 1844

Coloured engraving of Hancock's steam carriage

1833-1835

Print showing Gurney's steam carriage on Highgate Hill

1828

Dr. Church's London and Birmingham Steam Coach

1832-1835

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

The New Invented Steam Carriage

1830-1839

The "Enterprise" Steam Omnibus

1833

Benjamin Hick

1843

Brass Matrix of a Capital 'M', 1826-1836

1826-1836

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

Coloured lithograph showing Box tunnel

1846

The Flying Steam Company, to China in twenty-four hours certain

circa 1843

'Rocket', 'Novelty' and 'Sans Pareil' at the Rainhill Trials

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Charles Babbage

1845

General meeting of the British Association...

1842

Lithograph of Camden Town Fixed Engine Station

1837

Lithograph by Harvey Dutton of H.M.S. "St. George"

1830

Lithograph, coloured: "Please doctor natomy

1830-1839

First Steam Fire Engine Constructed in England AD 1830

1830

Engraving, hand coloured. View in the Regent's Park; East Gate

1828

Engraving of Thomas Telford

1831

The Viaduct Over the Sankey Canal

1831

Engraving of William Symington (1763-1831)

circa 1830

Past and Present

1845

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

The Shakespere Cliffe, and Tunnel

1844

Lithograph. Ungarn

1825-1835

Portrait of Thomas Young (engraving)

1830-1839

George Stephenson

1830-1831

Scene Royal Institution

1831-1832