Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853
John Ellis
1858
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Fowke's Bellows camera
1856
Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe
1580-1588; 1930
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bridge link
1852
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02