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Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

circa 1854

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

circa 1854

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Fern Leaf

1852

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

Lord of the Isles

1851

Replica life mask of Taupua Te Whanoa

1853-1854