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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

single needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Telecommunications

1850

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Section of underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

truncheon

Wellcome (general)

1849

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Dandelion Seeds

Photographs

1852

Spectacles, gold rims, blue lenses, given to James

Ophthalmology

1853

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Craters under Tycho

James Hall Nasmyth

1846

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

J Diplock

1851

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam

Art

1849

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

Art

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855