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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge link

1852

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

1851

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

1855

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey

1851

Railway Swing-bridge, Folkestone Harbour

1851

Rye Swing Bridge, South Eastern Railway

1851

The Reading Stations

1851

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables

1851

Portrait, lithograph after Gavarni of P.L.F. Sauvage

1853

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Lithograph Portrait of John Dalrymple

1852