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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1848-1852

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850