Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Cloth tape measure
1850-1860
Britannia statue
1849
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine
1860
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Railway bridge section
1850
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bridge link
1852
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
England and her Soldiers
1859
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856