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Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

England and her Soldiers

1859

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

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

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

John Ellis

1858

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1934