Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Bridge link
1852
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Crossed Muslin
1852
Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations
1852
Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"
1899/12
Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".
1899/12
Two portraits, George Turnbull’s palki bearer and an untitled portrait
1852
Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India
1856-11
Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet
1854
Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace
circa 1852
Fern Leaf
1852
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Rain gauge measuring glass cylinder
1851
Rain gauge square section
1851