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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

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

1705-1737

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Eclipse

1841

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

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

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

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

1841

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Cheffins's Map of the Railways in England and Scotland

1845

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Cayley's 'Aerial Carriage', 1843.

1843