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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1847

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Railway bridge section, portion of rivetted girder from Britannia Bridge

Railway Infrastructure

1850

model steam, crewe type locomotive

Railway Models

1846

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855)

Clockmakers

1852

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

.Unattributed

c.1854

Moon by James Nasmyth

James Hall Nasmyth

1849

Nasmyth reflecting telescope on turntable stand, 1850-1852

Astronomy

1850-1852