One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Replica of Islamic Astrolabe
1066; 1876
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
John Ellis
1858
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Ramsbottom speed indicator
1860
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
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
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
England and her Soldiers
1859
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Bridge link
1852
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway
1860
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860