Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine
1860
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
John Ellis
1858
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Novelty model
1955; 1830
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Enfield Carbine Rifle
circa 1860
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.
1860
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
England and her Soldiers
1859
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857