Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
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
Model railway turntable
1850
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
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
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
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
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
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Model of machine for making drain pipes
1851
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877