Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
South-East View of Sheffield
1855
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Model railway turntable
1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Bridge link
1852
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
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
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851