Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Railway bridge section

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'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

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1850

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Britannia statue

1849

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

A Sedgwick

1850

Cast iron Columbian printing press

circa 1850

Undulating markings on brass

1848

Lithograph, McGahey's Lithography

1850

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Medal commemorating the eighth congress of the Versammlung deutschen Nat. U. Aerzte

1847

Bronze medal to commemorate the 8th convention of the Hungarian naturalists and physicians held in Sopron 1847

1847

Power Loom Factory of Thomas Robinson Esqr, Stockport

1849-1850

Design for a Sociable Phaeton carriage

1850

Camden Town station

1848

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Portrait: Cabinet photograph of John Ramsbottom

1850

Arch over Dean Street, Newcastle on Tyne

1848

Bell-shaped, screw-focus glass microscope (c.1850)

1850