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Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

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

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

1934

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

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

1851

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Daguerreotype of John Avery Stranded In Rapids Above Niagara

1853

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

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

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

1851

Elisa Garnerin. Aeronaute

1854

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Goodall's patent grinding apparatus

1853

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Receipt with letter heading. Alexander Adie & Son

1852

Receipt with letter heading. Richard Read

1853

Dering's single needle telegraph, 1852.

1852