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Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model railway turntable

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Grave marker, grave '221'

1860-1920

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office

1938; (1838)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 2nd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Britannia statue

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1705-1737

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1850

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1850

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1849

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

1917-918

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Sir Edmund Beckett [known as Edmund Denison]

1850

Plan of the building in Hyde Park for the Exhibition of 1851

1850

Station platform with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

circa 1850