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Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Model railway turntable

1850

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

1834

Dandy cart and horse

1845-1855

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Model of street-sweeping machine.

1850-1857

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Railway bridge section

1850

Slotting machine

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

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

1848-1852

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Keyboard for transmitting telegraphic messages, 1845-1851

1845-1851

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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 kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855