Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
John Ellis
1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
England and her Soldiers
1859
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Locomotive Memoranda, Engines
1856
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857