Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Railway bridge section
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss
1849
Model railway turntable
1850
Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage
1847
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
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
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Bridge link
1852
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Britannia statue
1849
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