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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

1845-1855

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

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

1846

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Model railway turntable

1850

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

John Ellis

1858

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Railway bridge section

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844