Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'
1850-1859
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History
1850-1859
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Railway bridge section
1850
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
Model railway turntable
1850
England and her Soldiers
1859
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
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
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
John Ellis
1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Bridge link
1852
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
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
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851