Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

1849

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1849

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1846

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

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

1846

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1850

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

1870-1877

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

1857-06

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Copy of a Drawing 'His Portrait, Pedro Orrente', by Tessin

1847-08-31

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

1849

Coloured lithograph showing Box tunnel

1846