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

1853-1857

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

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

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846