Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister
1853
Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester
1852
Microscope Slide, 1852
1852
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
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
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Model railway turntable
1850
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846
1846
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Bottle of collodion
1854
Bottle containing chloride of gold
1854
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE