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

Water Transport

1853-1857

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Plaster model of the lunar surface

Astronomy

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

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

Archive

1850-1859

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

Railway Timepieces

1857

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Second Class: The Parting 'Thus part we rich in sorrow, Parting poor'

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1855

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

Motive Power

after 1859

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858