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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

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

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 Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

1850

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

1850

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Compound monocular microscope, 1852

1852

Antifriction Press, D. Dick

1851

Steam Engine, Hick and Son

1851

Psyche and Cupid, Fraikin

1851

View of Transept, Looking South

1851

Furs, Nicholay

1851

Vacuum Apparatus, Pontifex and Wood

1851

Design for Fountain, Andre

1851