Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

John Ellis

1858

Novelty model

1955; 1830

England and her Soldiers

1859

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

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

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Bronze medal to commemorate the thirtyfourth Convention of the natural sciences and arts at Karlsruhe

1858

Engraving. Stazione della Ferrovia a Civitavecchia

1859

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Coke produced by a mixture of equal weights of pitch and slack

1859

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Lead fume deposited at the bottom of the stack (a white powder)

1859

Sample of tin produced by assay

1858

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Lithograph. The Leviathan (or) what do with her now you've got her off

1858

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Ingot of lead after softening (Parkes' Process) From the Llanelly Lead Works

1859

Richard Hornsby

1858

Photograph, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society

1859

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Arsenical glass. From the Arsenic Works

1858

Cornwall Railway. Saltash Bridge, 1859

1859

A crystallised mass of iron silicate produced from the smelting of forge cinder and coal to make "bull dog"

1859

Portrait of Robert Stephenson (1803-1859)

1858

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Copper plate etching, Strada Ferrata Stazione a Porta Porteseā€¦

1859