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

1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

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

1849

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

1848-1852

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge link

1852

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1846

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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 British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851