James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

1865

John Ellis

1858

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1865

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866