Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Charles Green Aeronaut
1836
Euston Station gates
1838
Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway
1839
Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway
1842
Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841
1841
Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839
1839
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway
1846
Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway
1840
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage
1839
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel
circa 1840
Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd
1840-1850
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Two lancets in a patterned silver case
1844
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
The Dutton Viaduct on the Grand Junction Railway, over the Valley of the Weaver
1837-1840
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Britannia statue
1849
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851
1845-1851
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)
Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837
1837
Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942
1842
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840
1839-1840
Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838
1838
Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846
1837-1846
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842