Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
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
Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway
1842
Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841
1841
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
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
model steam, crewe type locomotive
1846
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
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
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Windsor mantle clock
1845-1855
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
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)
Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942
1842
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Monaural stethoscope and percussor
1846-1855
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway
1840