Model of Grew's locomotive for ice
circa 1861
Thompson's Revolver Camera
1862
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway
1870
Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point
1878
Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885
circa 1880
Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co
1875
Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co
1884
Ramsbottom speed indicator
1860
Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway
circa 1885
Wise's Patent Train Staff
1886
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Catgut suture
1875
Rectal speculum
1870-1890
Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885
1885
John Ellis
1858
Wolferton station master hand lamp
1870-1880
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866
1866
Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865
1865
Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871
1871
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Sample of Acid Yellow Dye
circa 1890
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
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd
1889
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co
1879
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Aveling and Porter steam traction engine
circa 1871
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
One of four original Swan and Raven models
1867
One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude
1867
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Light-bulb, filament, carbon
About 1890
Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter
1886
'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet
1880-1890
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Operative Society of Bricklayers
1866-1870