Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Britannia statue
1849
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Railway bridge section
1850
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Model railway turntable
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
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
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
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
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Bridge link
1852
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854