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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

Bridge link

1852

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

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

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1934

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Crossed Muslin

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Two portraits, George Turnbull’s palki bearer and an untitled portrait

1852

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Fern Leaf

1852

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Rain gauge measuring glass cylinder

1851

Rain gauge square section

1851

Dandelion Seeds

1852

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Engraving for British Gazette by A. Ashley

1851

Lithograph Portrait of John Dalrymple

1852

Engraving: 1851 Great Exhibition of Industry of all nations; vignette

1851

Chromolithograph, gilt trim

1851

View of the building in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition

1851

Engraving: hand coloured

1851

Joseph Paxton

1851

The Opera Boxes During the Time of The Great Exhibition

1851