Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
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
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849
1849
Model railway turntable
1850
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Nimbus, or rain cloud
1849
Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above
1849
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Britannia statue
1849
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
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Coloured daguerreotype photograph
circa 1849
Cloud modifications
1849
Lord of the Isles
1851
Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs
circa 1851
Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine
1849
Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica
circa 3000 BCE
Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey
1851
Railway Swing-bridge, Folkestone Harbour
1851
Rye Swing Bridge, South Eastern Railway
1851
The Reading Stations
1851
Coloured lithograph; Britannia Tubular Bridge over Menai Straits
1849
Chester and Holyhead Railway. Coloured Lithograph by J. Newman. "Bangor
1850
Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley
1851