Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

John Ellis

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

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

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

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

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

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

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

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

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)

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Double tongue commutator used by Wheatstone

1861