James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'
1853-1857
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera
1858
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
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
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
England and her Soldiers
1859
seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway
1856
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
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
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
John Ellis
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
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway
1860
earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway
1860
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855