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Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

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

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s