Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Model railway turntable

1850

Bridge link

1852

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

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

1851

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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)

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Note from Mr Droffnore

1851

Silver medal commemorating setting up of commission to investigate insanitary lodgings

1850

Copper medal to commemorate the opening of the new public water supply at Dijon

1850

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Stereoscopic photographs and designs in box

1852

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Rain gauge square section

1851

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Self-winding pumping keyless cylinder watch mechanism, 1850

circa 1850

Great Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait, Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Portrait: Cabinet photograph of John Ramsbottom

1850

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50