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Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846

1837-1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Gold watch with the owner's name in place of hour numbers, by William Hardy

1820

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Marine chronometer by Charles Shepherd

1840-1850

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Pastille burner in the shape of a house

1821-1850

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Stained plaster phrenological bust

1821

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Steam locomotive used at Hetton Colliery

1822

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine

1832

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Calotype Camera

1838-1848

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

'Extraordinary effects of Morison Vegetable Pills!', advertisement published London, England, 1834

1834

View of the Railway from Hetton Colliery to the Depot

1823

The Reading Establishment Panorama (Right Half)

1845-1847

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Montyon and Franklin Medal, 1833

1833