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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1848-1852

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1852

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

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

1849

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge link

1852

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1850