Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

John Ellis

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

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

1705-1737

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

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

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Bronze medal to commemorate the thirtyfourth Convention of the natural sciences and arts at Karlsruhe

1858

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Circular bronze medal struck to commemorate the 32

1856

Sample of tin produced by assay

1858

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Lithograph. The Leviathan (or) what do with her now you've got her off

1858

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

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

1857

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Richard Hornsby

1858

Portrait. R.W. Bunsen. Lithographed by Hoffmann after a photograph by Hanfstungel

1856