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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

1849

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Railway bridge section

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1870-1877

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Britannia statue

1849

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850