Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Railway bridge section
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
John Ellis
1858
Model railway turntable
1850
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Dandy cart and horse
1845-1855
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851
1845-1851
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844
1844
Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844
1844
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Two lancets in a patterned silver case
1844