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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

John Ellis

1858

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1860

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854