The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Model railway turntable
1850
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Railway bridge section
1850
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Bridge link
1852
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
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)
Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.
1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936
1936
Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE
2050-1750 BCE
Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB
1990-95
Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798
1798 (original); 1977 (model)
Hughes 'Typograph', Typewriter for blind people
1850
Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915
300 BCE; 1905-1915
Power loom manufactured by J. Harrison and Son
1842-1858
Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley
1850
Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE
2000-100 BCE
Compound monocular microscope, 1852
1852
Antifriction Press, D. Dick
1851