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Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

1848-1852

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

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

1846

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Britannia statue

1849

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Spectacles, gold rims

1853