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Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Bridge link

1852

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Windsor mantle clock

1845-1855

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

circa 1854

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1855

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1851

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Britannia statue

1849

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica life mask of Taupua Te Whanoa

1853-1854

Camera obscura

1845-1855

Massey's patent ships' log

1854-1857

Nasmyth's Steam Hammer

1845-1855

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

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

1843-1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

circa 1855