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Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

circa 1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Slotting machine

1835

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Seal die, Great North of England, Clarence & Hartlepool Junction Railway

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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)

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840