Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

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

1840

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

circa 1854

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Model railway turntable

1850

Down Pipe from Maldon Witham & Braintree Railway

1846-1859

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1849

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

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

circa 1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

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

1849

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841