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Category
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Bridge link

1852

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Euston Station gates

1838

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver

1837-1840

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

circa 1854

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853