Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
Model of the "Planet" Locomotive
1830 (original); 1967 (model)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
The Great Exhibition Polka 1851
1851
Freud electronic laughing ball
1990-96
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century
1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)
Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement
1705-1737
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852
1852
'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851
1851
Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson
circa 1850s
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
Railway bridge section
1850
Novelty model
1955; 1830
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Bridge link
1852
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Model railway turntable
1850
View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge
1850
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Pocket watch belonging to Joseph Lister
1853
Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester
1852
Microscope Slide, 1852
1852
Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850
1850
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851
1851
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 2nd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924