Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model railway turntable

1850

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Bridge link

1852

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1934

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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

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

1851

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Fern Leaf

1852

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Large padlock with key by Moreton and Langley

1850

Dandelion Seeds

1852

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

1883-01

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

1850

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Pewter enemea syringe

1852

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Ice skate of about 1850

circa 1850

Haighton obstetrical forceps

1870-1850