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Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

model passenger locomotive 1837

1837

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

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

1837

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway seal die

1837

Slotting machine

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

1838

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

1837

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Euston Station gates

1838

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Octant made of ebony and brass

1830-1835

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

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