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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

England and her Soldiers

1859

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860