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Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Railway bridge section

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1846

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

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

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Calotype negative of the Upper Yard in Dublin Castle

1844-1850

Calotype negative of the Rutland Fountain in Dublin

1844-1850

Calotype negative of the Custom House in Dublin

1844-1850