Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Railway bridge section
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Model railway turntable
1850
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 2nd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE
1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE
Automaton monkey
1850
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)