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Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

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

1850-1859

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

England and her Soldiers

1859

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1857-1858

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850