Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Railway bridge section
1850
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Model railway turntable
1850
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Britannia statue
1849
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway
1846
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
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