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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Railway bridge section

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

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

1849

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'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

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1846

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Britannia statue

1849

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844