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Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Eclipse

1841

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1826

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

1834

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

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

1837

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Hand loom

1825-1835

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1835-1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

model locomotion no 1

1825

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

circa 1840

Model of Stockton & Darlington Railway locomotive no. 5 "Royal George"

1827

Cramlington Colliery chaldron wagon, c 1826

1821-1831

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Phrenological head, microcephalic

1820-1830

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Slotting machine

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

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

1820

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

1822-1840

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

1826

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839