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Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

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

1848-1852

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Bridge link

1852

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Britannia statue

1849

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

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

1934

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

1850

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Circular bronze medal

1848-1850

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Note from Mr Droffnore

1851

Silver medal commemorating setting up of commission to investigate insanitary lodgings

1850

Medal, bronze, prize or national award for work or assistance during cholera outbreak in Belgium

1849

Copper medal to commemorate the opening of the new public water supply at Dijon

1850

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Stereoscopic photographs and designs in box

1852