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Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Bridge link

1852

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850