Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Model railway turntable
1850
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
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
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Bridge link
1852
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Spectacles, gold rims
1853