Column dial by Henry Robert
1831-1870
Plaster mould
1790-1819
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Medal commemorating the Montgolfier unmanned balloon ascent
1783
Medal, Blanchard's balloon ascent, Nuremberg, Germany, 1787
1785
Medal commemorating balloon flight of Blanchard at Frankfurt
1785
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Hand loom
1825-1835
Half-penny coin
1806
East Indiaman Herefordshire
1815
Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'
1850-1859
Portrait mezzotint print from engraving of Phelps Thomas and Bartlett John, 1778
1778
Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway
1862
Painted mask from Kolam masked play
1771-1860
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Crucible, piece missing, fused substance within
1790-1819
Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes
1807
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Socrates
1790-1819
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Trough battery, 1801-1838
1801-1838
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Plaster urn
1790-1819
Part of four-part plaster split mould, rear of head and neck of James Watt, by James Watt
1790-1819
Pair of dental forceps
1820-1855
Plaster mould of head of Apollo
1790-1819
Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860
1840-1860
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin
1815
Plaster bust
1790-1819
‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt
1782-1793
Plaster mould
1790-1819
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
One plaster mould
1790-1819
Watt's end measuring machine
1776
Two Perkins 'tractors'
1795-1805
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Crucible, broken, with three fragments present
1790-1819
Magnetic key, 1850-1870
1850-1870
100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.
1784
Satirical print of a failed balloon launch from Foley House, London in 1784
1784
Lunardi's second balloon ascending from St. George's Fields, 1785
1785-1790
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866