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Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

circa 1854

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Model railway turntable

1850

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1849

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

circa 1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

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

1848-1852

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

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854