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Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Railway bridge section

1850

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Model railway turntable

1850

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

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

1934

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1851

Cranked lantern slide with moiré pattern

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

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

1850-1899

Lord of the Isles

1851

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

1851

The Reading Stations

1851

Chester and Holyhead Railway. Coloured Lithograph by J. Newman. "Bangor

1850

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables

1851

Interior of the Central Railway Station, Newcastle

1850

A Sedgwick

1850