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Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Model railway turntable

1850

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Bridge link

1852

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

The Great Central Railway Station, Newcastle on Tyne

1850

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

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

1851

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

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

1705-1737

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854