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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

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

Archive

1850-1859

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

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

Telecommunications

1850

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

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

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Larmuth Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1860

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

Archive

1850-1859

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

South-East View of Sheffield

Art

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

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

Telecommunications

1858