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Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1848-1852

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Bridge link

1852

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

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

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Britannia statue

1849

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE