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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Slotting machine

1835

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1834

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1870-1877

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Syringe, silver, made in Birmingham in 1836

1836

2 lancets

1836

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Watercolour: The coal-mine wharf near the Moira Baths

1837

Ghent to Termonde Railway medal

1837

Malines to Antwerp Railway Medal

1836

Trade token, halfpenny or one sou

1837

Medal, bronze, of King Charles Albert of Sardinia

1835

Bronze medal from medical faculty of Vienna commemorating 50th anniversary of doctorate of A. von Stifft

1834

Circular bronze medal

1834

Circular bronze medal

1834

Silvered bronze medal by Brandt celebrating I.A.I.

1835

Silver bronze medal commemorating 50th anniversary of work of I.B. Trommsdorff

1834

Circular bronze medal

1835

Circular bronze medal

1835

Circular bronze medal

1835

Bronze medal by H.F.Brandt

1835

Medal commemorating Antonio Trasmondi

1834

Medal commemorating Antonio Trasmondi

1834-1835