Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Railway bridge section
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Model railway turntable
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Bridge link
1852
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
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
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Comparative Magnitudes of the Planets
1850-1860
Hughes 'Typograph', Typewriter for blind people
1850
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777
1777 (original); 1894 (model)
Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918
1917-918
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of Mud House
6000-5000BCE