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Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bradshaw's Railway Companion timetable

1843

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

1813

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

model locomotion no 1

1825

Metric volumetric rule, with 0.05 to 100 litres graduations

1803-1828

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

Conjectural model of Trevithick's locomotive 'Catch-me-who-can'

1808

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Slotting machine

1835

Hand loom

1825-1835

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Half-penny coin

1806

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Phrenological head of William Dodd

1810-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Oval snuff box, England, 1807

1807

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840