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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

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

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

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

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

1851

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)