Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
John Ellis
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
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
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
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Islay shipwreck components
1857
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857
1856-1857
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)