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
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
'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
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
'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
John Ellis
1858
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
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
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)