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Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

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

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

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

1870-1877

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1830

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Lithograph of the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

1826

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal commemorating Michel Bregin who left

1834

Worn pewter(?) medal commemorating some person's d

1828

Medal, commemorating Samuel Hahnemann, Germany, 1829

1829

Bronze medal

1839

Bronze medal

1832

Bronze medal by J. Leclerq commemorating B.C. Dumortier

1839

Octagonal silver medal with head of Louis Philippe I

1830-1840

Gilded bronze medal commemorating the voyage of discovery undertaken by L'Astrolabe in 1826

1826

Medal, bronze, commemorating fiftieth anniversary of doctorate of Johann Georg Pickel

1828

Medal commemorating Johann Wendt

1828

Circular bronze medal

1834

Bronze medal

1831

Medal commemorates recovery from illness of the Prince of Orange

1835

Mantyon and Franklin Medal, 1833

1833

Bronze medal commemorating the erection of a statue to the Virgin Mary in grateful thanks

1836