Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
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
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851
1845-1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
Bridge link
1852
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Britannia statue
1849
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
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
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
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)