Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866
1866
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
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
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Columnar Engine, 1862
1862
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
John Ellis
1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Early binaural stethoscope
1861-1866
Obstetrical forceps
1870s
Marey sphygmograph and case
1857-1870
Glass pharmacy storage bottle
1864
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867
1867
Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870
1850-1870
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Morse key, 1850-1870.
1850-1870
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.
1860
Basin from a pan closet
1860-1870
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Bridge link
1852
Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton
1865
Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway
1860
earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway
1860
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England
1870
Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.
1858-1866
Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich
1868
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway
1870
Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle
1855-1865