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

circa 1840

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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

1840

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

James Grey

circa 1840

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Fox dip and intensity apparatus by George

circa 1840

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Silver lancet case, empty

1841

Forceps, bone cutting by Reynolds

1840

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Uterine probe

1901-950

Lancets

1841

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Full plate fusee watch by Wm. Potts of Leeds and Newcastle NER 55

1840

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Pump winder, verge escapement watch mechanism, 1840

1840

Thermometer used by Thomas Hancock in his vulcanisation of rubber experiments

1840

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50