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
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
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
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bridge link
1852
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
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
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853
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
Ottewill folding box camera
1853
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
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 Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430
1960-1979
Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE
2000-1001 BCE
Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin
700 BCE; 1931
Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph
1870-09
Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son
1842-1858