Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Britannia statue
1849
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth
1859
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853
John Ellis
1858
Model railway turntable
1850
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Fowke's Bellows camera
1856
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850