Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

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

Bridge link

1852

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Print, [Great Exhibition 1851] a view of the Crystal Palace exterior facade and gardens

1851

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

1851

Fern Leaf

1852

Ascensions Aerostatiques les Plus Remarquables

1851

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

The Queen of the May in 1851

1851

The Reading Stations

1851

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey

1851

Crossed Muslin

1852

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Lithograph Portrait of John Dalrymple

1852

Four Glass Collodion Positives Showing Perforations

1852

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Rye Swing Bridge, South Eastern Railway

1851

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Railway Swing-bridge, Folkestone Harbour

1851

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Faraday's Earth inductor, 1851, replica

1851

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

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

1851

Overpopulation

1851

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050