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Railway bridge section

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

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

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1851

Note from Mr Droffnore

1851

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Stereoscopic photographs and designs in box

1852

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Rain gauge square section

1851

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Self-winding pumping keyless cylinder watch mechanism, 1850

circa 1850

Great Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait, Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Portrait: Cabinet photograph of John Ramsbottom

1850

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Receipt with letter heading. Alexander Adie & Son

1852

Wheatstone's kaleidophone

1850

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Figure of Alexander Humboldt

1851