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The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Railway bridge section

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1851

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

1705-1737

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'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

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

A Sedgwick

1850

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

Print, [Great Exhibition 1851] a view of the Crystal Palace exterior facade and gardens

1851

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

1851

Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables

1851

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

The Queen of the May in 1851

1851

The Reading Stations

1851

Lithograph, McGahey's Lithography

1850

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey

1851