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Place
Material
Date

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

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

John Ellis

1858

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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 gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

England and her Soldiers

1859

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Bridge link

1852

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1934

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

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

1856-1857

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

1870-1877

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE