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Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

1849

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1849

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Bridge link

1852

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1846

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848