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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Britannia statue

1849

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

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

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1846

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

1850

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1870-1877