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Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

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

Archive

1850-1859

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Binocular stereoscopic camera no. 12

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Lens for narrowing light beam for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

Telecommunications

1850

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

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

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Microscope Slide, 1852

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

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

Archive

1850-1859

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856