Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Britannia statue
1849
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
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
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
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
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
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
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC
2800 BCE
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Cast iron Columbian printing press
circa 1850