Telescope by Galileo (replica)
1610; 1923
Mousetrap Camera
1834-1836
'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799
1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera
1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.
1850
Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772
1772 (original); 1919 (model)
Bullion box containing lead shot
1855
Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835
1934
'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
Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 2nd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)
1930 (replica); 1834 (original)
Micrometer type mechanical comparator
1855
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE
William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900
1854
Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934
1934
Railway bridge section
1850
Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7
1863-7
Bridge link
1852
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Four-Wheeled Hand Crane
1850
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge
circa 1850
Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894
1893-4
Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway
1856
Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)
1851
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245
1855
Bronze bust of William Stuart
1855
Spectacles, gold rims
1853
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850
1850
'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856
1856
Bridge plaque - 1855
1855
Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas
1852
Purse presented to George Hall esq
1853
Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe
1854
Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Grave marker, grave '221'
1860-1920
Replica Grand Junction Railway travelling post office
1938; (1838)
Gold chain for Lister's pocket watch
1853
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