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

1850-1859

John Ellis

1858

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

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

1849

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

circa 1854

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Railway bridge section

1850

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860