Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Cloth tape measure
1850-1860
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
John Ellis
1858
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Enfield Carbine Rifle
circa 1860
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Bridge link
1852
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4