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

1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

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

1849

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bridge link

1852

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

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

1934

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1705-1737

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

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

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923