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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model railway turntable

1850

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

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

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1846

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Britannia statue

1849

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

1705-1737

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

1850

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

1870-1877

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846