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

1853-1857

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Britannia statue

1849

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Railway bridge section

1850

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

England and her Soldiers

1859

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

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

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bridge link

1852

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

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856