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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

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

1705-1737

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

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

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

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

1855

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Britannia statue

1849

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855