Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

John Ellis

1858

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1857-1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

circa 1854

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

England and her Soldiers

1859

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

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

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

after 1859

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1860

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860