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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1846

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Model railway turntable

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Railway bridge section

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1848-1852

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

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

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Bridge link

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1846

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

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Britannia statue

1849

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)