Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Maker
Place of origin
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Date

Model railway turntable

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Small brass dissecting microscope with folding legs

1850

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Silver vinaigrette

1850

Gilt perfume case

1849

Electromagnetic machine

1850

2 lancets

1849

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Polariscope (c.1850)

1850

Bronze medal with obverse by J. Wiener 1847

1850

Bronze medal by L. Wiener awarded by city of Brussels for services rendered during cholera outbreak

1849

Bronze medal awarded to visitor of the poor during the cholera outbreak in Brussels in 1849

1849

Circular bronze medal

1850

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850

Medal commemorating Jons Jakob Berzelius

1849

Bronze medal to commemorate Johann Gottfried Schadow

1850

Bronze plaque commemorating I.B. Erhard

1849

Medal commemorating Michael Skjelderup

1849

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350