Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
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
Ramsbottom speed indicator
1860
Novelty model
1955; 1830
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
John Ellis
1858
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
England and her Soldiers
1859
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
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
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
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
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
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
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Bridge link
1852
Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway
1860
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858