Ramsbottom speed indicator
1860
Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works
1857
John Ellis
1858
One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860
1860
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858
1858
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858
1858
Novelty model
1955; 1830
England and her Soldiers
1859
James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858
1858-03-02
Dagron microphotographic camera
circa 1860
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway
1860
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway
1860
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Islay shipwreck components
1857
Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon
after 1859
Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay
before 1857
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
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.
1860
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858
1858
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858
1858
Whitehouse's induction coil, 1858
1858
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Paddlewheel used by James Joule
c1860
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Enfield Carbine Rifle
circa 1860
Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859
1859
Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857
1856-1857
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)