Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
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
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Model railway turntable
1850
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Railway bridge section
1850
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (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
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Britannia statue
1849
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
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)
Moon by James Nasmyth
1849
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931