Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model railway turntable

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1855

Bridge link

1852

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1855

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

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

1934

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96