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Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Half-penny coin

1806

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Trough battery, 1801-1838

1801-1838

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

1810-1817

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

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

1834

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

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Original preparation of quinine hydrochloride by Pelletier

1810-1840

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Original preparation of quinine acetate by Pelletier

1810-1840

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

1820