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Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

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

Model railway turntable

1850

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

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

1851

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1846

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

Britannia statue

1849

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

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

1870-1877

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

1934

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

1850