The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

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

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

A Sedgwick

1850

Peas & Partners Alphabetical Telegraph Instrument

1846