Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

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

Islay shipwreck components

1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

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)

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

1705-1737

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

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

1934

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

1856-1857

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

1870-1877

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Dog tickets

1857

Teneriffe

1856

Teneriffe

1856

Thomas Clark

1856

L & C Railway Locomotive Engine Memoranda from Nov. 22nd 1856

1856

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp

after 1857

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Wisbech: Market Place

1857-06-15

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Henry Cort

1856

Portrait. R.W. Bunsen. Lithographed by Hoffmann after a photograph by Hanfstungel

1856

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Engraving: Bust of Queen Victoria

1856

Mezzotint. Portrait of Sir Francis Beaufort FRS 1774-1857. By S. Pearce

1857

Watercolour showing exterior of Scutari Hospital, c.1857

1857

Bronze medal

1856

Silver(?) medal, possibly awarded as a prize to Pr

1856

Silver prize medal awarded to Monseiur Guipon for services during "epidemic"

1857