Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

John Ellis

1858

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

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

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

England and her Soldiers

1859

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE