Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Railway bridge section
1850
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Model railway turntable
1850
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Novelty model
1955; 1830
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843
1843
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844
1844
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851
1845-1851
Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844
1844
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Britannia statue
1849
'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
seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway
1846
Two lancets in a patterned silver case
1844
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
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
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)