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Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

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

Archive

1850-1859

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

Archive

1850-1859

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1850

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

Langevin, Paul

1850-1860

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Cable 'tree' decorative souvenir of the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

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

Telecommunications

1850