Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Britannia statue

1849

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1849

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

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

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bridge link

1852

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s