Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

England and her Soldiers

1859

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Bridge link

1852

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860