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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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Britannia statue

1849

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

1870-1877

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

1934

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

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Silver medal commemorating setting up of commission to investigate insanitary lodgings

1850

Medal, bronze, prize or national award for work or assistance during cholera outbreak in Belgium

1849

Copper medal to commemorate the opening of the new public water supply at Dijon

1850

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Self-winding pumping keyless cylinder watch mechanism, 1850

circa 1850

Portrait: Cabinet photograph of John Ramsbottom

1850

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Wheatstone's kaleidophone

1850

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE