Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

John Ellis

1858

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

England and her Soldiers

1859

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

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

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858