Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
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
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
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
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
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
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister
1853
Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester
1852
Microscope Slide, 1852
1852
Bottle of collodion
1854
Bottle containing chloride of gold
1854
Leather case for photographic developing chemicals set
1854
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852