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Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

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

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1849

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

1848-1852

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bridge link

1852

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle on Tyne

1850

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1870-1877

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)