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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Yarmouth South Town bench

Railway Furniture

Wrapping Block

Textile Industry

c. 1920

Early Wheeler and Wilson hand-powered lock stitch sewing mac

Textiles Machinery

Six-foot speculum [metal] mirror on travelling carriage from the Great Rosse Telescope, the 'Leviathan of Parsonstown', built by the Third Earl of Rosse at Birr, Ireland, 1844-46.

Mirror for the Great Rosse Telescope, 1844-1846

Astronomy

1844-1846

Milling Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1870-1900

Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

Station lamp and Standard (from 1 matching pair), Great Eastern Railway. Ex-Wolferton Station. Black with gold trim. Glass marked 'Wolverton' on one side. Overall (approx): 5000 mm x 950 mm x 600 mm.

Station lamp and Standard, Great Eastern Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

Stirling's hot air engine, c. 1816.

Heat Engines (non steam)

1811-1826

Willcox and Gibbs chain-stitch sewing machine, c 1914.

Textiles Machinery

1913-1914

Radial flow turbine engines originally fitted to the 'Turbinia'

Marine Engines

1894

Hirtz's compass for locating bullets, Paris, France, 1915

Clinical Diagnosis

1915

Iron used by patients in psychiatric hospital, c. 1920-1940

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1889-1990

Ring spinning frame, 1926.

Textiles Machinery

1926

Trevithick's High Pressure Steam Engine and Boiler, c. 1806

Motive Power

1805-1806

Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son, Blackburn, England and fitted with the loose reed emergency stop mechanism of 1842. Exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and subsequently modified by the makers with design changes up to 1858.

Power loom

Textiles Machinery

1842-1858

Original Remington Arms lock-stitch sewing machine head: the 'Empire' model of 1870, by the Remington Arms Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1870.

Remington Arms Company lock-stitch sewing machine, 1870.

Textiles Machinery

1870

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Gas Cooker

Gas Industry

1910-1920

Howe lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1888.

Textiles Machinery

1883

Grover and Baker two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine, 1871.

Textiles Machinery

1871

Henry Wallwork & Co Water Pump

Pumping Machinery

1927

Draught recording dynamometer

Agricultural Engineering

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

Clockwork Kinora Viewer

Cinematography

1908

Portable transit instrument, 1840-1860

Astronomy

1840-1860

Judkin's lock-stitch sewing machine, 1851.

Textiles Machinery

1851

Underground train, Post Office Railway, No 809, two electric power units and one carriage from Mount Pleasant, London.

Post Office Railway, underground train, No 809

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1930

Wells Cathedral clock

Time Measurement

1392

Anglo-American Arab Platen Printing Machine, 1842-1880

Printing & Writing

1842-1880

Pakistan Railways steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1911

Jones lock-stitch sewing machine, c 1890.

Textiles Machinery

1879-1909

Harmonograph by Newton, 1909.

Mathematics

1909

Bunsen Burner, 1885-1889

Experimental Chemistry

1885-1889

Electric motor, part of a Mather & Platt electric fire pump

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

Gibson 'Z' type industrial blanket whipping sewing machine.

Textiles Machinery

1850-1970

Gas/manual washing machine

Domestic Appliances

Bradbury Sewing Machine

Textile Industry

1875-1900

Lamp post, cast iron on concrete base.

Cast iron lamp post

Railway Furniture

Gate post plaque, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, cast iron plaque mounted on wood, from gate post of Exchange Station, Liverpool, L & YR picked out in gold on black background, mounted on wood. Overall: 620 mm x 307 mm x 45 mm.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway post plaque

Railway Infrastructure

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

Motive Power

1870

Avamore Reduction Gear, part sectioned

Mechanical Power Transmission

1919-1926

Rack and gear wheel assembly, mounted on a wooden base

Computing & Data Processing

Ferranti Steam Alternator

Electricity Supply

1900

'Miehle' Printing Press

Printing & Writing

Collier lock stitch sewing machine, c. 1874

Textiles Machinery

1874

Portable transit instrument with striding level and accessories

Astronomy

1816-1850