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

1853-1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

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

1705-1737

1853-1914, police officer, French

Bertillon, Alphonse

1853 - 1914

Fowke's Bellows camera

1856

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

active 1853-1921, optical, mathematical, philosophical & electrical inst. maker, London, England

Elliott Brothers

1853 - 1921

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854