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Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model railway turntable

1850

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Bridge link

1852

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1851

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (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

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

Niger of Sunderland William Souter Commander

1852

Nasmyth reflecting telescope on turntable stand, 1850-1852

1850-1852

Lord of the Isles

1851

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey

1851

Railway Swing-bridge, Folkestone Harbour

1851

Rye Swing Bridge, South Eastern Railway

1851

The Reading Stations

1851

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