Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Model of street-sweeping machine.
1850-1857
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
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
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Railway bridge section
1850
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Bridge link
1852
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857
1856-1857
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister
1853
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Microscope Slide, 1852
1852