Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Railway bridge section
1850
Model railway turntable
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
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
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Bridge link
1852
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Cast iron Columbian printing press
circa 1850
Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case
1851
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Chester and Holyhead Railway. Coloured Lithograph by J. Newman. "Bangor
1850
Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley
1851
Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley
1851
Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables
1851
Interior of the Central Railway Station, Newcastle
1850
Lithograph Portrait of John Dalrymple
1852
Engraving: 1851 Great Exhibition of Industry of all nations; vignette
1851
Chromolithograph, gilt trim
1851
View of the building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition
1851
Engraving: hand coloured
1851
Plaster model of tomb plaque
100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920
Alabaster mortar
2000-1350
Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements
1972-3