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Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Railway bridge section

1850

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

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

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Cranked lantern slide with moiré pattern

1850

Photographic Brooch

circa 1850

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

'The Thames Tunnel' peepshow, with original box

1851

Polyrama Panoptique

circa 1850

Coloured daguerreotype photograph

circa 1849

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Cloud modifications

1849

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923