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Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Model railway turntable

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

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

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

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Railway bridge section

1850

Bridge link

1852

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1851

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854