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

1849

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Islay shipwreck components

1857

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 a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

'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)

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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