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Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

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

1846

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

'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

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1854

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

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

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