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Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1846

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

1853-1857

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

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

1850-1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1849

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

circa 1854