Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1855

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Teneriffe

1856

Teneriffe

1856

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp

after 1857

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Stereoscopic camera (J.B.Dancer's Stereoscopic camera)

1856

Microphotograph "Photograph from life of J. B. Dancer"

1855-1857

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

Daisy

1864-04

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Jena glass U tube used by Sir Edward Frankland in the preparation of zinc ethyl at Owen's College

circa 1855

Compound Microscope

1855

Plate holder and Shutter

1856

Jena-glass U-tube

circa 1855