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Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

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

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Britannia statue

1849

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1934

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

1850

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Cranked lantern slide with moiré pattern

1850

Photographic Brooch

circa 1850

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Polyrama Panoptique

circa 1850

Coloured daguerreotype photograph

circa 1849

Turntable, Cast Iron

1848

Views on the London & North Western Railway

1848

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

1850

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

1850

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)