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

1853-1857

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852