Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

John Ellis

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

England and her Soldiers

1859

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Islay shipwreck components

1857

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

1934

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

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

1855

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

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

1860

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

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

1705-1737

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)