Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
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
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760
1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC
2800 BCE
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Print, [Great Exhibition 1851] a view of the Crystal Palace exterior facade and gardens
1851
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph
1870-09
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son
1842-1858
Fowler, William Henry
1807 - 1904
Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List
1883-01
Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel
1872-08
Moon: West of Tycho
1851
Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health
1880-120
Haighton obstetrical forceps
1870-1850
Oesophageal forceps Durham's
1871-1830
Double-ended dental pelican
1851-1800