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Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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)

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

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

circa 1854

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Medal, Grant Medical College

1855

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Medal, Inauguration of the Asile Imperial de Vincennes pour les Ouvriers Convalescents

1857

Everest theodolite

circa 1855

Balfour-Stewart experimental mercury thermometer

1856

Ten Reales coin of Isabella II (Spain)

1855

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE