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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

John Ellis

1858

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

1857-1858

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

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

1857-1858

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

England and her Soldiers

1859

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

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

after 1859

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858

1858

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Islay shipwreck components

1857