Sewing machine by Elias Howe
circa 1846
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846
1846
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine
1846
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Model railway turntable
1850
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway
1845
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1849
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Single-needle block instrument
1845
Railway bridge section
1850
Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845
1845
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Single needle telegraph, 1846
1846
Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company
1845
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Britannia statue
1849
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway
1846
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
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
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE