Palmer's micrometer (replica)
circa 1848
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848
1848
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Model railway turntable
1850
Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854
circa 1854
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849
1849
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister
1853
Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester
1852
Microscope Slide, 1852
1852
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852
1848-1852
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 2nd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Bridge link
1852
Britannia statue
1849
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850