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

Water Transport

1853-1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Model of a Power loom for plain weaving

Textiles Machinery

1857

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Sample of Bessemer steel

Metallurgy

1860

Astronomical Diagram. The seasons and signs of the zodiac. P

Reynolds, James (publisher)

c. 1860

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

Art

1860

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

magneto-electrometer, 1857

Telecommunications

1857

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855)

Clockmakers

1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Archive

1850-1859

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

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

Telecommunications

1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

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

Railways

1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860; c.1860

Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister

Wellcome (general)

1853