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Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1853-1857

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Railway bridge section

1850

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

circa 1854

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

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

England and her Soldiers

1859

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850