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Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

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

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Horizontal sundial, inscribed: 'LIFE A SHAD-W A.D. 1856'

1856

Coloured portrait of Andrew Pritchard

1855

Thunder pump, 1856

1856

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate featuring French chemist Baron Thenard

1857

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Commemorative plate, Crumlin viaduct near Pontypool

1857

Archibald Young

1857

Hood typewriter, 1857

1857