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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

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

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

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

1855

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Vue Generale d'Athenes avec l'acropolis

circa 1855

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

`A meeting of the inhabitants of the Borough of Berkeley

1854

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Medal, silver, British issue Crimean War with bar for surgeon V. Webb

1854

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Trade card: John Walsh Walsh

1855

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

circa 1855

Camp du 97th Regiment Anglais

1855

Portable chemical balance

circa 1855

Set of 24 Early Photographs of Incidents in the Crimean War

1855-1856

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

long-beam chemical balance

circa 1855