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

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1857-1858

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

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

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

1849

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849