Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.
1860
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Bridge link
1852
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
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
'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
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle on Tyne
1850
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle
circa 1860
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Enfield Carbine Rifle
circa 1860
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859
1859
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934