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Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

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

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Gilt perfume case

1849

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Accessories for transit theodolite

1849-1851

Polariscope (c.1850)

1850

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

1849

Bronze medal

1851

Medal commemorating Jons Jakob Berzelius

1849

Bronze medal by van der Keller commemorating C.G.C. Reinwardt's 50th anniversary as professor at Leyden University

1851

Bronze medal to commemorate Johann Gottfried Schadow

1850

Medal commemorating Michael Skjelderup

1849

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Rain gauge measuring glass cylinder

1851