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

circa 1840

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

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

1705-1737

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

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)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1841

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

1840

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

James Grey

circa 1840

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

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

1840

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Fox dip and intensity apparatus by George

circa 1840

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

1730; 1967

Diorama of the West Portal of Box Tunnel, built 1841

1841

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Wheatstone military telegraph, 1840

1840

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

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

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000