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Rocket locomotive

1829

Laennec's stethoscope

1815-1825

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Original preparation of quinine by Pelletier and Caveton

1820

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

1840

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Self- striped printed muslin dress

1830-1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Wooden stool with four legs and octagonal seat

1830-1840

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Lancet case, carved with pictures of Napoleon's tomb

1821-1850

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

'Vaporisateur du Docteur Montazeau', print, Paris, France, 1822-1840

1822-1840

View of the Britannia Tubular Bridge

1850

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

circa 1840

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Model railway turntable

1850

White earthenware jug

1830-1850

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Monaural stethoscope

1840-1850

Plaster phrenological head of Sir William Edward Parry

1827-1850

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Watch with Prest's keyless winding by John Roger Arnold

1821

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

1849

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Hand loom

1825-1835

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851