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Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

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

Model railway turntable

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1848-1852

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Railway bridge section

1850

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1851

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

1705-1737

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

circa 1854

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855