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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

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

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Model railway turntable

1850

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858