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Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

Industrial Metrology

1855

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Ordinary Chinese razor, broad blade, middle 19th c

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1850

Booklet of 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions' by Anna Atkins

Photographs

1843-1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1852

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

Railway Maps & Plans

1845

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Art

1851

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

J Diplock

1851

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

4-wheeled hand crane

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1850

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

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

.Unattributed

c.1854

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

Railway Infrastructure

1849

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Section of early underground telegraph cable, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

Signalling & Telecommunications

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

Telecommunications

1855

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1843

windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

Wellcome (general)

1849