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Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

John Ellis

1858

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860