Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
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
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Bridge link
1852
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Islay shipwreck components
1857
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857