Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
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
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851
1845-1851
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
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Railway bridge section
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
Bridge link
1852
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)
'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
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
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
Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851
1845-1851
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851