Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
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
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Bridge link
1852
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857
1856-1857
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)