Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1851

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

1850

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

Lord of the Isles

1851

London, State Occasions

circa 1850

Harwich

1850

Sir Edmund Beckett [known as Edmund Denison]

1850

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Miners dial

circa 1850

Dumpy level

circa 1850

Uterine probe

1901-950

Roman stone water main

30

table of rates and charges

1857/07

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

The Principles & Practice & Explanation of the Machinery of Locomotive Engines

1850

Length of Double-Headed Rail, Joint Chair, Ordinary Chair and Wooden Key.

1850

Horse-drawn Hermaphrodite farm cart c. 1850? by W.

circa 1850

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910