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Sans Pareil

1829

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

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

1846

Rocket locomotive

1829

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Phrenological head

1821

Britannia statue

1849

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

England and her Soldiers

1859

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Skeleton clock with helical gearing by Charles McDowall

1820-1840

Silver one-minute tourbillon watch by Abraham-Louis Breguet, sold to the Princess de Valençay in 1812.

1812

Gold watch by Robert Roskell

1814

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Shaving bowl

1820-1860

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842