Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Railway bridge section
1850
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse
1850-1856
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Model railway turntable
1850
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Bridge link
1852
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)