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Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

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

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Fern Leaf

1852

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

Teneriffe

1856

Teneriffe

1856