Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway
1853
Railway bridge section
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
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
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
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
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
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns
1853