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

1846

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

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

1849

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1846

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

1851

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Ore-furnace slag from Whiston Copper Works

1849

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

1847-08-31

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

1849