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Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

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

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

Britannia statue

1849

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1850

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Medal commemorating Michael Skjelderup

1849

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Note from Mr Droffnore

1851

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

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Chamberlain's Improved Drawing Board

1849

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Rain gauge square section

1851