Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Britannia statue

1849

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

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

1846

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Model railway turntable

1850

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

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

1849

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Bridge link

1852

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

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Monaural stethoscope and percussor

1846-1855

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

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)

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

1705-1737

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851