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Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1846

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

1705-1737

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

1847-1848

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rocket locomotive

1829

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

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

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1849

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Slotting machine

1835

Stockton & Darlington Railway carriage

1847

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

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

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

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

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

1840

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

1849

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842