Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Railway bridge section
1850
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
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Model railway turntable
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
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
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
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
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850