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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

John Ellis

1858

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

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

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

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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)

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

1855

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

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

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Portable chemical balance

circa 1855

Part of Electromagnet

1855

Bronze medal to commemorate the thirtyfourth Convention of the natural sciences and arts at Karlsruhe

1858