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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

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

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

1934

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

1856-1857

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1855

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Mont Olivier

1857

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

circa 1855

Piscine probatoire - Bethesda

1857

Monument d'Absalom

1857

Camp du 97th Regiment Anglais

1855

La Grande Pyramide de Ghizeh

1857

Chateau de David

1857

Vue Generale d'Athenes avec l'acropolis

circa 1855

Tombeau de David

1857

Jerusalem prise du Mont Scopus

1857

Eglise du St Sepulchre Façade

1857

Le Sphinx avec les Pyramides

1857

Village de Bethanie

1857

Vue General de la Mosquee d'Omar

1857

Vue Generale de Mont Olivier

1857

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