Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

John Ellis

1858

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Basin from a pan closet

1860-1870

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

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

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Cornwall Railway Safety Rattle

1855-1865

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

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

A steam hammer at work

1871

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1855

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888