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Material
Date

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

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 of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

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

1849

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

1850-1859

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

England and her Soldiers

1859

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856