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

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single-needle block instrument

1845

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

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

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

1849

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858