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

1846

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1853-1857

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

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

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

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

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

England and her Soldiers

1859

Bridge link

1852

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850