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Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

circa 1854

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

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

after 1859

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860